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...crony, Pat O'Brien, talks with Victor Fleming about horses and about the war career of their close friend Clark Gable. A nonstop gum chewer and candy nibbler who describes himself as "a box of chocolates broadened out into a character actor," Tracy has recently lost weight (8 Ib.) because war has drastically curtailed his formal supply of sweets...
Most jockeys are slaves to scales. As riders soar towards the 110 Ib. danger line, out come sweatboxes and rubber suits for roadwork under a broiling sun. Some live on black coffee, cigarets and an occasional graham cracker. At 27, tall by jockey heights (5 ft. 2¼ in.), Ted Atkinson needs none of these. His average weight (stripped): 96 Ib...
...Marvin still gets emergency calls-a sugar grower needs a shipment of live frogs from Argentina to eat insects menacing the sugar crop; a silk concern wants a shipment of silkworm eggs from Turkey. He turned down a request to ship perfume essence, worth $1,500 a Ib. But when the U.S. onion crop turned out poorly, 61,600 pounds of onion seeds were flown in from Argentina...
...student paratrooper stepped into space, 700 ft. over Britain. The plane zipped away at 80 m.p.h. The paratrooper counted, pulled the ripcord-continued to fall like a stone. His chute did not open properly. The 154 Ib. paratrooper plummeted the 700 ft. in 10 seconds, hit the earth at 50 m.p.h...
...holiday weeks. His argument: if the beef and pork products were not moved quickly, they would spoil since there is no storage space. Further, such action might strike "a deathblow at the black market." Other food dealers suggested that WFA release part of its gigantic 433 million Ib. of frozen fruits, 1.7 million cases of eggs, 176 million lb. of butter. This would ease the storage problem for meat...