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That was his passport to the comic strips, and no man ever stayed longer or showed more zany inventiveness. The Rube Goldberg machines, a byproduct of his engineering background, made him rich and world-famous. All his designs were models of ludicrous ingenuity. In his automatic stamp-licker, a dwarf robot overturned a can of ants onto a page of postage stamps, gum side up; then they were licked up by an anteater that had been starved for three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartooning: To Make Them Laugh | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

Building permits to the contrary not withstanding, the new structure will dwarf every other building in Cambridge. Leverett Towers rise twelve floors above the river, and the William James Hall will have only 15. Even the Health Center--just two blocks away--will look tiny is comparison...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Skyscraper Motel Planned for 1965 | 4/30/1964 | See Source »

Hitler's press boss was Max Amann, a stupid, brawling dwarf bullock who had been Corporal Hitler's wartime company sergeant. Amann had assembled a press empire of 59 dailies even before the party took power. For the sake of Nazi recognition, scores of nonparty papers agreed to print Nazi propaganda free and to take no ads from Jews. By way of disaster insurance, dozens of German advertisers cynically bought space in official Nazi organs. The German people were partly to blame, for they did not support the few honest papers that warned what Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hitler's Paper Yoke | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ. Brawny Colleen Dewhurst is matched with Michael Dunn, a prancing, saturnine dwarf, in Edward Albee's enigmatic adaptation of Carson McCuller's novella. The play lacks stage life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE. Brawny Colleen Dewhurst is matched with Michael Dunn, a prancing, saturnine dwarf, in Edward Albee's enigmatic adaptation of Carson McCuller's novella. The play retains some of the moody ambiguity of the original, but lacks more than a fragmentary stage life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 27, 1963 | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

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