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...Relief. Sonny Tufts, 29, is 4-F's gift to Hollywood. He stands 6 ft. 4 in his socks, bears down on them with 200 Ib. of well-balanced beef and bone. But under all this somatic splendor is a broken man: two shattered shoulders, two knees with floating cartilages, one cracked pelvis, one crushed hand. Causes: sports and fights from prep school on. When he first came up for the Army physical, Tufts was classified 1-B. He asked what that might mean. "It means," snarled a sergeant, "you can relieve one WAC for active service." The next...
...great new gusher. On Thanksgiving Day a group of oilmen had gathered in Franklin, Pa. around an oil well whose like they had never seen before-a sizable hole in the ground that looked more like a coalmine shaft. Someone threw a switch, setting off 12,000 Ib. of explosives deep underground. There was a rumble, a burst of steam and gas from the hole, and then an amazing flood of hundreds of gallons of oil and water from underground wells into the bottom of the shaft...
...ground school or in the air above West Point's Stewart Field. In good flying weather, this routine leaves less than three hours a week for football. Quiet, modest Cas Myslinski says he plays it for relaxation. Tall (5 ft. 11¾ in.), rugged (195 Ib.) and well-knit, he is older than most cadets. His roommate is the son of Joseph M. Patterson, New York Daily News publisher...
...biggest single catch taken annually from the teeming Great Lakes waters, which are the biggest single source of fresh-water fish in America. This year, despite the manpower shortage and a run almost two weeks late in starting, lake fishermen hope to lift 17 to 19 million Ib. from the shallow inshore waters where the herring come in to spawn. Such a catch, well under 1940's 22,480,000 Ib., would be worth more than $600,000 these days, well over...
...late Edsel Ford's daughter, only granddaughter of Henry Ford; and Naval Reserve Cadet Walter Buhl Ford II, 23, Detroit-born '42 Yaleman (no kin): a son, Walter Buhl III, Henry Ford's second great-grandchild; in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital. Weight: 8 Ib...