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...After months of continuous fighting and hard labor, G.I.s (though averaging five to ten pounds underweight) were in excellent physical shape-as fit as troops training in the U.S. and much fitter than garrison troops in Hawaii (who went a little soft...
...serious contender for the French presidency, perhaps because his appearance and personality so well symbolized his nation's present position. A threadbare grey jacket covered his hunched shoulders; the crystal of his wrist watch was shattered, the frame of his hornrimmed glasses was broken; he looked 20 Ibs. underweight. Yet he was vigorous, concise-and interesting. He said...
...spectacular revelations and gossip. "In writing of Teheran and Yalta," says Mclntire, "it has become the fixed habit of many editors and columnists to state without qualification that Franklin Roosevelt was a sick man, even a dying man." In fact, says Mclntire, he was "tired and worn" and underweight from overwork, but "organically sound" save for a chronic sinus condition. But once the rumors of his decrepitude had been noised around, Mclntire remarks bitterly, supporting evidence was fabricated...
Uncle Joe never spared himself either. Son of a Yonkers doctor-businessman, he had been an underweight (140-lb.) quarterback at West Point ('04), returned to the Academy after a tour in the Philippines to coach the cadets in French and Spanish. On the Western Front in 1918 Major Stilwell saw plenty of action as a G-2 staff officer. He scoffed at the Distinguished Service Medal he received, said that medals were for the combat infantrymen...
...Mexico's Davis Cup brother act-Rolando and Armando Vega-took a deep breath and blew Canada out of the running without losing a set. The U.S. team, which swallowed the underweight Filipinos in the other American zone Davis Cup playoff, must now tangle with the Vegas...