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There are three different tests which determine the suitability of a candidate for officership. The first, an eight minute physical efficiency test, has been used here by the Hygiene Department. If consists of merely stepping up onto a stool twenty inches off the ground, and then down again, to the count of "up-2-3-4, up 2-3-4 the command 'up' coming every two seconds." The heart rate is measured immediately afterward and at regular intervals for 3rd minutes, and the rating is determined by a special formula...
...Second day. . . . Make a head [privy] in the tunnel hatch and place seat from waist hatch stool between rungs of ladder-not bad, although a bit on the chilly side. . . . Visibility picks up to three miles, still see nothing but snow...
Neighbors figured he might someday be an orator. One recalls: ''Even when he was a little fellow, he always liked to make speeches. When he came to play at our house, he'd climb up on a stool and declaim. He was a Baptist, but when he made those little speeches we always said he seemed a lot more like a Methodist...
High on a red hill above the sunburned plains of Equatorial Africa, in the hereditary palace surrounded by flame trees, Mutesa II, 35th directly descended Kabaka (ruler) of Buganda, one of Uganda's three provinces, last week ascended the old stool which serves as throne for the Kingdom...
...enthusiasm into operatic production is intense, thickset, greying Yolanda Mero-lrion, wife of Hermann Irion, a Steinway Piano Co. executive, now a Washington dollar-a-year man. Impresario Irion first came to the U.S. in 1909 as a well-known concert pianist. After touring the world on a piano stool for 20 years, she settled down on her husband's estate in Rockland County, N.Y. During the depression Yolanda Irion discovered that 60% of unemployed musicians were singers. With wealthy Socialite Mrs. Lytle Hull, Mrs. Irion outlined a plan which would 1) put singers to work, 2) provide inexperienced...