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Midget Billy Curtis, 29, 3 ft. 6 in., 79 lb., last January married onetime Manhattan nightclub Bouncer Lois De Fee, 19, 6 ft. 4 in., 190 lb. Last week little Billy Curtis, suing his big bride for divorce, complained: "She treated me like a doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

BRANDY FOR HEROES-Jack Kofoed-Button ($3). Picturesque biography, in the beery-teared Gene Fowler tradition, of a forgotten fighting Irishman of Manhattan's roaring '60s, one John Morrissey, who rose from a brothel bouncer to underworld boss to heavyweight champion to Tammany State senator, founded Saratoga Springs' famed Casino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Married. Lois De Fee, 19, onetime bouncer in Manhattan's Dizzy Club who stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs 190 lb.; to 3½-ft., 79-lb. Midget Bill Curtis, 29; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press, Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Inside "The Yacht Club," midtown Manhattan nightspot, a lady bouncer named Lois de Fee (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ib.) claimed that little Lew Brice, Comedienne Fanny's brother, suddenly turned on her and gave her a rabbit punch, then blacked both eyes, broke her nose. Arrested, Brice claimed Bouncer de Fee started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...last week darted across the thin ice of the Genesee River to safety. Whereas Eliza merely left the bloodhounds baying on the brim, Geneseo's fox lured its pursuers out on the ice, which broke under them, drowning ten of the Hunt's hounds, including Wonder and Bouncer, the two best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Eliza Improved | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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