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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...
...beat, even tougher. Hooligans learned to respect the man who whirled them casually about his head, crashed them to the pavement, piled them neatly under his knee. Officer Westgate, a thoughtful man, decided that women, too, should be able to protect themselves; specifically that his wife Violet (weight, 114 Ib.) should be able to repel mashers. "No," said Violet, "I'd rather scream." "You must," said Officer Westgate, flipping her headlong across the room. "See how easy it is? I'll have no thug beating up my missus." Violet agreed to learn four holds, no more. They studied...
...miles an hour faster than any dive-bomber now in the air, which would put its top speed around 350 m.p.h. And it will carry twice the load of today's best. Since the Stuka Junkers 87 carries a maximum bomb load of 1,100 Ib., airmen could well assume that Helldiver, 1941 can carry better than a ton in its roomy belly. What also pleased Navy men was XSB2C-I's range (600 miles farther to sea than any other model), and fire power (double the punch of any single-engined Navy airplane now in service). Built...