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...Englanders, who naturally believe that their scions are bigger if not better men than their fathers, got a shock last week. According to an Army stature chart, bona fide Yanks are the smallest men in today's Army, said Major George D. Williams of the Surgeon General's office. The average New England height has been pulled down by the many short-statured descendants of French-Canadian and Polish settlers...
More important to prospective draftees is the belief of Selective Service Chief Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey that the Army can reach this goal without drafting men with bona fide dependents. There are still 1,000,000 undrafted men in the Class 1-A pool of the first registration; from the second, on Feb. 16, General Hershey. expects to net easily another...
...Professor Fred Rodell posted a notice stating, "I have determined to my complete satisfaction that the Union is a bona fide Union representing a clear majority of the service employees, and run neither by Communists nor by racketeers. I therefore intend to respect its picket line. There will be no class in intimation today...
Handouts. There is now one Government press agent for every two bona fide correspondents and they tend more & more to substitute propaganda for fresh information. Their deluge of mimeographed "handouts," according to the Bureau of the Budget, now costs the Government about $1,000,000 a year...
...yellow (Edmond O'Brien) and an amorous football hero (Robert Preston) is that the picture survives the plot's monkeyshines. Better left unmentioned is RKO's error in making its football chutist an All-American from Harvard, a university which has not turned out a bona fide All-American in nine years...