Jobs for Little Men

Brewster Aeronautical Corp. (Newark, N.J.) needed mechanics who could crawl inside flying-boat wings, hold rivets in place while workmen outside hammered away with rivet guns. Brewster’s skinniest workers found the chore a squeezing torture, could stand it for only a few minutes at a time. Along came 19-year-old Johnny Giovenco (“Johnny Gee” for short), a Brooklyn mechanic who usually had a hard time getting a job because he was only four feet high, weighed 88 Ib. He quickly got an inside job with Brewster. After New York newspapers printed his picture, little men swarmed to the Brewster plant. Last week three more were hired.