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...nothing unusual about the gathering except that there were present fewer officers than usual, more empty seats. Chief entertainment was a new British cinema, Trouble Is Brewing. The picture over, Lord Stanhope stepped to a platform in front of a curtain on which was painted a likeness of Dopey, Dwarf No. 7 in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. From one angle it even looked as if Dopey were whispering into Lord Stanhope's right ear (see cut). Prompted or not, the First Lord proceeded to explain the empty seats...
...smuggled in a dwarf for Snow White, a wig for Shirley Temple, shoes for Garbo, size 9, a necktie for Charlie McCarthy, a rattle for Mickey Mouse and a corncob pipe for Popeye...
...child, and been deserted by his wife. Literally searching for God to find an answer to his sufferings, he stumbles on a group of vaudevillians in a speakeasy. One of them has the sinister talent of worming the truth out of people, and drags from a dwarf and a ventriloquist their tragic, bleeding stories. Appalled by the knowledge of so much other suffering in the world, Clancy momentarily damns the world as evil; then affirms that man, through the exercise of his will, can make the world good...
...Book. Man's Hope shows as irremovably as a birthmark the strain under which it was written. A big, fast-paced, sprawling, 511-page novel, divided into 58 episodes, it begins in Madrid, where arms are being distributed to militiamen, shifts to Barcelona, where a dwarf-like, sturdy little anarchist named Puig is leading 300 anarchists against Fascist troops. From a sequence of desperate, suicidal, lunging events, smoky with action, grisly with bloodshed, the leading characters emerge...
Shots of thyroid or pituitary hormones enable a dwarf to fit into a man-sized suit of clothes, a young boy to sing basso profundo. Spectacular as the results of hormone treatment may be, doctors are still in the dark about the exact size of the injection in many unusual cases, have dared to administer only conservative amounts of hormone over long periods of time. Last year Physiologists R. Deanesly and Alan Sterling Parkes of the National Institute for Medical Research at London grew tired of performing innumerable injections in their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They...