At 62

Reported his personal physician, Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire: on his 62nd birthday, Franklin Roosevelt was in better health than at any time since he has been in the White House.

The President has bounced back wonderfully from his recent attack of flu. His above-average stamina is his strong point, said Dr. McIntire. He recovers quickly from extra strain, or illness. Only one thing worried Dr. McIntire: the long interruption in the President's peacetime schedule of five swims a week in the White House pool. Dr. McIntire hoped the President would soon resume this routine, also his periodic visits to Warm Springs (his last was in April 1943).

The flu attack cost the President several pounds; but now he was back to his regular weight, between 184 and 190.

Thus fit, Franklin Roosevelt celebrated his birthday in the manner which has become traditional. Across the land, Birthday Balls were held. At midnight, the President spoke on the radio.

On his desk, in the first day of his 63rd year, rested a mountain of work on domestic issues. This was an old mountain, eroded, weathered, chipped off, but apparently permanent, as none of the home front problems ever seems to get settled. Most important: how much shall the people be told about the war? (see col. 2).

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