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From onetime richest Macfadden magazine, Physical Culture had come gradually to smell of must and stale sweat. Its newsstand circulation fell to a senile 36,156, the smallest in the Macfadden tribe. But Oldster Macfadden, stubborn and misty-eyed, always remembered that Physical Culture 42 years ago started him on his climb to fortune, publicized him as a muscle messiah. As long as he had the say he flatly refused to turn it into a beauty magazine...
...partite personnel (representatives of management, labor and the public). Weighted with responsibilities, labor's own men had cracked down on many a reckless strike leader, read him the riot act. Management's men had shaken angry, executive fingers at hard-headed fellow employers. Out of one stubborn conference with employers a mediator-industrialist stamped, stormed: "Somebody ought to show those damn fools they're 40 years behind the times...
...With stubborn Russian resistance to the Nazis on the east and U.S. aid on the west, many an ebullient Briton has come to believe that World War II is as good as won. Such optimists, surprised and petulant when the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting did not hatch an outright U.S. declaration of war, have been inclined to complain about U.S. timidity both in private and public...
...ever a soldier seemingly set out to look for punishment it was Draftee John Habinyak, 26. In short order he found it. Last week his case suddenly became more uncomfortable for the U.S. Army than it was for stubborn John Habinyak, who lolled in the guardhouse well on his way to becoming a celebrated case...
After a sanity test (verdict: sane) Private Habinyak was court-martialed, pleaded guilty to a list of charges of insubordination. Then the court-martial showed it had little more sense of proportion than Private Habinyak. Its sentence: ten years and nine months in prison. Luckily for stubborn John Habinyak (and for the Army), the sentence had to be reviewed by the Secretary of War and the President. This week the War Department announced the sentence had been cut to a more reasonable three years...