Word: underweights
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...area bursting into musical blossom. About that time, Progressive Bandleader Stan Kenton passed through Los Angeles, and some of his crew, e.g., Trumpeter Shorty Rogers, Arranger Pete Rugolo, Drummer Shelly Manne, French Hornist John Graas, settled there and became famous. A hollow-eyed trumpeter named Chet Baker and an underweight baritone saxophonist named Gerry Mulligan made themselves fast killings among the cats. By 1952, the West Coast was the U.S.'s newest, biggest stomping ground for jazz. Brubeck felt right at home, shuttled between such clubs as San Francisco's Blackhawk and Los Angeles' The Haig...
...Backus, a spindly-framed youngster, was washed out of the Army Air Corps because he was underweight. Home again to Long Island, Backus got his back up and went to work with bar bells to build muscle and weight. He also began to fool around with the 35-lb. weightthrow, a track & field event normally reserved for bulge-bellied giants-in fact, the weight men are commonly called "whales." At Tufts College, Backus, still slim but taking on weight, became a better-than-average weight-thrower, but he was always in the shadow of his roommate Tom Bane...
...still doggedly heaving the 35-lb. weight, managed to throw it a new record distance, a quarter of an inch, farther than Bane's mark. Again Backus suffered a disappointing washout. On inspection, it was found that the 35-lb. weight was a few ounces underweight...
...interior decorator, but a Harvard classmate who had gone into the foreign service talked him into accepting a minor post with the U.S. embassy in Berlin. When America entered World War I, Herter returned to the U.S. and volunteered for military service, but was rejected as overtall and underweight. His elder brother Everit was killed in France with the A.E.F...
...case of a man who had worked in a bank since he was 15-because his parents had thought that this was a secure and respectable way to make a living. But he was frustrated; he wanted to work with his hands, and at 63 he was nervous, underweight and developing an ulcer. When he realized what his trouble was, he went to work in a furniture factory. The satisfaction of making things did wonders. He has gained weight, stopped biting his nails, and has no ulcer trouble. He has risen to foreman...