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Died. Arthur ("Artie") McGovern, 54, famed body builder to Broadway and Wall Street; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A onetime flyweight fighter, he did fairly well as a gym instructor till 1925, then shot to fame by reconditioning Babe Ruth, who came out of a slump of 25 home runs to knock out 47 next season, 60 the next. McGovern opened a second gym, largest of its kind in the world, specialized in "pushing the big shots out of bed," got $200 a month per customer for an hour's exercise a day (chiefly in a reclining position...
...Engineer MacDonald, a great road builder and visionary, all credit for his longtime dream of a U.S. Alaska highway. But MacDonald bitterly protested against the route picked for the Hoge highway, fought for a route nearer the coast. TIME doubts that Engineer MacDonald would belittle General Hoge's part in making the dream of an Alaska highway come true at last...
...draft came. The five conscientious objectors were all classified IA. (A sixth man took his chances, was put in 4-F.) Hedgerow besought the draft board to defer its IAs because of their importance: Morgan Smedley, "in charge of the ushering, parking and patrolling staff"; David Metcalf, "an institution builder"; George Ebeling, "importantly placed on the direction committee." They got nowhere. Hedgerow wrote to Major General Hershey. It appealed to Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission. It implored Eleanor Roosevelt to do something. They still got nowhere...
...backhanded blast at the slicker-dicker sort of U.S. truck builder, ODT's Bill Cumming, chief of its Vehicle Maintenance Section, snorted that after World War II smart fleet operators will demand a general sacrifice of "looks" and "streamlining" to efficiency, will insist on trucks with cabs "which a full-sized driver can enter easily-in which he can sit up straight, look out the windshield, get his knees under the steering wheel and operate the controls...
...these luncheon tests and the field trials a number of changes in Ration K have been made since it was first stowed in a knapsack late last year. Recent innovations: cheese for meat in the supper package, fruit bars for a touch of tartness, the cigarets as "morale builder-uppers." Most vexing current problem : finding a thirst-quencher satisfactory under all conditions...