
16th December 1937: Madame Lauri Alwyn, one of the foremost authorities on health education, has a nine month old baby boy, regarded by doctors to be physically a year in advance of his age. His mother gives Laurence five minutes of special exercises per day in her flat in Wigmore Street, London, to help develop his body; he now weighs 28 lbs. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)