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...vile snout of the Belgrade deserter to the camp of imperialism, hireling spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor to his country and to the cause of Socialism." The people are not deceived, said the Literary Gazette, when "the Wall Street gentlemen spare no dollars to make the insolent dwarf Tito appear a giant...
...dwarf epithet was interesting; Tito's height of 5 feet 7½ inches (average for southern Slavs) is on record in London at Madame Tussaud's Waxworks-whence he sent it along with one of his fancy uniforms to drape his ozocerite likeness. The Literary Gazette's own Joseph Stalin in 1936 had refused to give Tussaud's any data, and they had mistakenly reconstructed...
Lautrec, an ugly and aristocratic dwarf descended from France's powerful medieval Counts of Toulouse, had drifted among the confetti and champagne of Montmartre at its brightest, wandering in & out of bars, dance halls, brothels, sketching satchel-eyed lechers in boiled shirts and top hats, provocative cocottes in billowing pantalettes and immense bonnets. On his advertisements for nightclubs, books, magazines and plays, Lautrec had portrayed his disreputable and talented cronies with the subtlety of a Japanese print backed by the dash and action of a circus broadside...
...regicide conspiracy? Poor little Wheeler was grilled at length to discover if it was. Rumors spread that he was really a dwarf, or a scout for a gang of thieves, or "a Certain Gentleman's idiot bastard that had been shut up in the Devil's Tower since birth and had escaped after braining his keeper...
Pramote, who had heard the shot, ducked out the back door and dived into a canal. The Dwarf tore off his blue gown and rushed into the house, firing wildly. He killed Pramote's eight-year-old niece and the Ceylonese guest. Then The Dwarf dashed out, shouting to his pal to start Pramote's Packard. Pramote's chauffeur protested, trying to protect his boss's car. The Dwarf killed him, too. By the time police arrived, The Dwarf had disappeared...