Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time was when my tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) frame also supported a burly 225 Ib. I too made application for training with the Army Air Corps. Three times Air Corps medicos refused examination, stating that a maximum weight of 200 Ib. was a prerequisite. Said third A. A. C. recruiter, "The Army Air Corps doesn't have any room...
Still 6 ft. 2½ in., but now a fragile 198 Ib., I am waiting for my final acceptance into the Navy air service, expect to be accepted as soon as I scale 190 Ib. The Navy, while more stringent, allowed me to take their entire physical examination first, lose weight after I was sure everything else was up to standards...
...Egon Ludwig Hanfstaengl ("Putzi's" son but a patriotic U. S. citizen) got down to 200 Ib. before he was taken into the Air Corps. He is now a buck private in training at Maxwell Field in Alabama. Weight range for Air Corps recruits: 115 to 200 Ib. Height range: 5 ft. to 6 ft. 4 in. Requirements for pilots are narrower but not rigidly denned-i.e., they must be well-balanced physical specimens...
...easygoing Patrolman Stanley Westgate found his good nature and his 190 Ib. sorely tried when he was assigned to Detroit's tough East Side several years ago. Citizens thereabouts don't like cops. One night six men gave him clubs up an alley. Later three men slugged him from behind; later still, a tough cabbie lead-hosed him when he poked his face...
...legitimate stage, where he scored lavishly in 1911 in The Fascinating Widow, a play written specially for him and which toured for four years. In this vehicle he played six different roles in rapid succession, wearing Paris gowns that were the envy of his female audience, strapping his 210 Ib. and 46-in. waist to a ghostly corseted 24 in., singing popular tunes in an impeccably pure falsetto...