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Muscle Building. A round-the-clock worker, Spyros sometimes, puts in as many as 20 hours a day in his paneled Manhattan office. To keep in shape he exercises in the morning with company underlings in his private office gym, talks over business while being rubbed down. On weekends he fills his home at Mamaroneck, N.Y. with people, treats his guests to movies in his private theater. The shortest private Skouras show on record: two full-length features and eight shorts...
Except for the non-swimmers who are still non-swimming, we are now exercising out on the grass and cinders about Soldiers Field. The gym is a fine building, but it lacks sunlight and grass, two things we who have done our basic in sandy camps or bivouacked in rainy weather appreciate greatly...
...gym feels too much like the inside of a man o' war to put a soldier at his ease. So many sailors got their experience there that even the instructors talk like old tars. We have been told to line up against the bulkhead, go up to the next deck, and see the chief. Yes, they even call them "heads" there...
...walks of life, have one thing in common: a passion for planes. Their chief is glamorous, dashing Jacqueline Cochran, ex-beauty shop operator, wife of Promoter Floyd Odium. Mrs. Love, ex-test pilot, is now a WASP executive officer. Among WASPs at Romulus (Mich.) Army Air Field: an ex-gym teacher, an ex-Broadway dancer, an ex-Hollywood hat designer. WASP Hazel Ying Lee once flew with the Chinese Army. They are young (18½-35), but Paula Loop, ex-schoolma'am, thinks that the uncertain hours and nervous strain age them fast...
Sports viewsreel: The new, lengthened gym period has promoted several good basketball games, and in the assorted melees several Company B men have shown flashes of form which indicate considerable experience...