Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Cinemactress, "Veronica Lake" (Constance Keane Detlie), 24: Major John Stewart Detlie, 34, peacetime Hollywood art director; three years after their marriage (for each the first); in Hollywood. She charged that he called her an "unfit mother," added to her grief over the death last July of their premature second child. She won custody of their two-year-old daughter Elaine for nine months each year, and $50 a month...
...second generation from such World War I monstrosities as The Kaiser-the beast of Berlin. And their infantile crudeness is the essence of their appeal. Hitler's Children (TIME, Jan. 18) features de luxe penny-arcade thrills like the threatened sterilization of Bonita Granville as a creature "unfit to be a Nazi mother." The climax of Behind the Rising Sun is a fight between a Japanese wrestler and a U.S. boxer which epitomizes in terms of the rawest violence the popular notion of the difference between the two nations...
When the Graduate School of Education moved in, they found that the old building had been condemned by the fire marshal. A tinder-box of old spider webs, and wood, it was declared definitely unfit for habitation...
...team peered and prodded each man as he filed past. These were hard-bellied soldiers, tanned and toughened by training. This was their final physical, which War Department regulations require within 48 hours of embarkation. A few men were motioned out of line: hernia or hemorrhoids make a man unfit for combat. Sometimes a heart or a lung case turns up. Sometimes a mental case, dormant in training...
...Nearly 40% of our draftees," Kelly declares, "were rejected as unfit for military service, and a majority of those accepted . . . did not possess skills necessary for self-protection. It is estimated that 50% of our armed forces, when inducted, cannot swim well enough to save their lives, and lack the strength, agility and endurance to jump ditches, scale walls, throw missiles and stand up under forced marches...