Word: underweights
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...draft districts from Bar Harbor to San Luis Obispo. Told to administer the draft and grant deferments as they saw fit, no two boards saw eye to eye. In Los Angeles, a board placed Cinemactor James Stewart in Class I-B (for limited service) because he was ten pounds underweight. (Jimmy Stewart, weight 145, declared he wanted to serve.) In Chicago, a husky named Len Weiner was drafted although (at 245 Ib.) he was well over Army weight standards...
Johnny Coulouriotes won the Jumbos lone five points when he floored underweight Bill Taylor in 4:09 in the 136-pound class. Taylor was wrestling for ace Jim Redmon, who is benched with an injured knee...
...their basic physique types do not change. Thus weight tables which give "normal weights" against height and age, without regard to structural type, mean less than nothing. Example: A heavy woman of type 632 frets because she thinks she is 30 Ib. overweight, whereas she is actually 30 Ib. underweight for her type and ought to stop dieting at once...
...theatre town Milwaukee is underweight; its two barnlike theatres just mosey along. No light chore was it, therefore, when Off-and-On-Broadway Myron C. Pagan tackled Milwaukee's carriage trade last June to back a repertory company. But Fagan got his money, and last month started producing...
...people who can afford to eat well eat unwisely, pour enormous quantities of oils, sugars and refined starches into their overworked digestive engines. "If a diet is correctly balanced," said Dr. Heiser, "a smaller quantity of food will suffice." Certain it is that middle-aged persons who keep slightly underweight have a good chance of outliving their self-indulgent friends. Facts on food...