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...deaf are enjoying a cycle of prosperity now, but they still have one loud if not vociferous complaint. The U.S. Government does not consider them eligible for the armed forces, classifying them as 4-F, along with the blind, the physically helpless, and the mentally deficient. There are countless tasks in the Army & Navy which the deaf could perform, and they are eager to serve their country. Their young men are as able-bodied as any of our soldiers, with the sole exception that they cannot hear, but does one fire a cannon with one's ears? They...
...prayed. At dawn the prize fighter jumped out under cover of a cloud of smoke and, "half crawling and half walking," helped get the wounded to the rear. His purse: shell shock, malaria, minor shrapnel wounds, a corporal's rank, recommendation for a distinguished service award. His only complaint: "No referee to break the clinches...
Month ago Sidney Sutherland had announced that he was going to "take a few healthy wallops at my latest favorite punching bag-the-gasoline rationing insane asylum in Southern California." His complaint: Atlantic Coast methods could not be applied to the Pacific Coast without disastrous results. His mistake: making Paul Barksdale D'Orr, California rationing officer, the butt of the controversy...
...case against John Baer was promptly dismissed. Planning to go to his draft board to start all over again, Baer still had one complaint: because legally he was the draftee who wasn't there, the Army would not pay him for his 35 days' service...
Fifteen thousand fight fans had no complaint last week over the fact that most experienced prize fighters have gone into the service. They thoroughly enjoyed seeing two scrappy kids, Newark's curly-haired Allie Stolz and Harlem's kinky-haired Beau Jack, fighting it out in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, for a fling at the world's lightweight title. The title had, as a matter of fact, been abandoned that very day by Champion Sammy Angott-supposedly because of a badly battered hand...