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...surgeons have removed the bothersome scar tissue from around his eyes. But before the first round was over, the crowd realized how wrong they were. Instead of his customary windmill attack, Armstrong tried to box, scarcely landed a blow. In awesome silence they watched round after round. The tiny dynamo, after ten years of punching, was running down at last. Gamely he swung, but Zivic landed two for one. By the fifth round, Armstrong's eyes were dripping blood. By the tenth, he looked like an idiot, face swollen, eyes closed, mouth open...
...Canada went into the war with such a department, nominally still has one. But the job was too big; the organization was overwhelmed. So Canada backtracked, provided Ministers for Air -able Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Powers -Navy (gentle, genial Angus Macdonald) and Army (Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, No. 1 dynamo of Canada's wartime machine). All have Cabinet rank; each has his own organization. Only when matters affecting two or more services come up does Mr. Ralston on occasion function as top Minister. Then the three Ministers and the chiefs of the three service staffs generally act in council...
...Walter Christie popped up in Washington with plans for a tank to be hooked to an airplane and landed ready for combat. Aircraftsman Glenn Martin in Baltimore declared that all the established industry needs to get into real mass production is mass orders. Two men in charge of the dynamo whence all this humming proceeded were a white-haired young man named Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and a Danish, cat-stepping giant named William S. Knudsen...
After the verbal smoke had cleared away, at least two things were apparent to impartial eyes: Lou Ambers is not a great fighter, Henry Armstrong is losing his steam. Although last week's defeat was his first in 47 fights, the little black dynamo who knocked out 35 of 37 opponents within 18 months has chalked up only three knockouts in his last nine matches...
...assistants, Dr. John Raymond Johnson and Miss Marjory Metcalf Taylor, persuaded six men and four women to pedal furiously on a stationary bicycle every day until each was exhausted. The bicycle operated a dynamo which was connected with a number of electric lamps and a wattmeter which measured the amount of energy each subject was capable of expending. After about 30 days of this sort of thing, the scientists began to feed each cyclist daily glasses of chilled orange and lemon juice containing unflavored gelatin, made from the bones of animals. The men were given 60 grams (two ounces...