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...Camp Butner's. For instance, decisions are rendered on the following scoring system: 50% for aggressiveness, 25% for blows landed, 25% for generalship, defense and condition at the round's end. Because few soldiers can keep below 120 lb. on G.I. food, there are no bantam or flyweight matches...
Died. Arthur ("Artie") McGovern, 54, famed body builder to Broadway and Wall Street; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A onetime flyweight fighter, he did fairly well as a gym instructor till 1925, then shot to fame by reconditioning Babe Ruth, who came out of a slump of 25 home runs to knock out 47 next season, 60 the next. McGovern opened a second gym, largest of its kind in the world, specialized in "pushing the big shots out of bed," got $200 a month per customer for an hour's exercise a day (chiefly in a reclining position...
...course cargo space in the Atlantic Clippers is at such a tremendous premium that our allotment is for only 200 pounds once a week-and so we cannot send nearly enough copies to satisfy the demand. But we print a special lithographed edition on flyweight paper in a third plant just outside New York City (our two main plants are in Chicago and Philadelphia)-and we leave out most of the ads and use special light-weight binding staples-and one way or another we get the weight down to one-third as much as a regular copy of TIME...
Married. Cinecomedian Charles Ruggles, 50; and Marian La Barba, 38; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Her previous husbands: ex-Flyweight Champion Fidel La Barba, Cartoonist Billy De Beck (Barney Google...
Gouaches, requiring neither the heavy weight slugging of oil paintings nor the flyweight speed of watercolor, are the middleweights of painting, command a smaller price (usually from $50 to $150) but put on a fine show for the money. Unlike oil paint, gouache* (a combination of opaque colors ground in water and a preparation of gum arabic) is mixed with water in painting, is fast-drying, cheap and simple to use. Gouache painters need neither easels, oil, turpentine nor expensive canvas, can paint conveniently on anything from paper to wallboard. Unlike watercolor, where the texture of the paper shows through...