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...Slender, underweight (132 Ib.), blue-eyed Henry L. Olson, 25, onetime farm boy, was invalided home last summer-weighing 112 pounds. He had been with the A.V.G. in Burma and China nearly a year, was twice shot down. He is Democratic candidate for Congress from the Ninth District-a vast area of wheatfields, Indian reservations, woods, lakes, muskeg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Owns the House? | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...overweight, underweight, or for some other reason have hesitated to make your contribution, hesitate no longer. Very frail people are giving their blood regularly every two months with no ill effects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Seventeen of those who were not immediately accepted on the basis of the physical were disqualified, while another 17 were placed in a "hold" category, including men with correctable defects such as being underweight and having decayed teeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 41 Students Survive Army Air Corps Tests | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Careerpuellae mrsrooseveltiac. Those who drown their emotions in activities (classic dance groups, political forums, et al.) These are unhappy unless they have some responsibility. They are usually underweight, worried, and dress comfortably rather than attractively. They work for Causes, and account for the rest of the first 33 1-3 per cent...

Author: By M. S. K., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/13/1941 | See Source »

Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart gorged himself up to Army weight, was told he would be called this month (his Los Angeles draft board had previously found him 10 lb. underweight-TIME, Feb. 17). Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's grandson Henry Stuart Hughes quit the Brown University faculty (history), joined the 103rd Field Artillery from Rhode Island. Draft Prospect William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, promised to resign his presidency of the New York Stock Exchange when he is called in May (see p. 78). Jaded, faded Jackie Coogan, 26, got his Hollywood board to draft him ahead of his normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling Jackie, Calling Willie | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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