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Opposing pitchers are likely to find it difficult to pitch to Mike Hovenanian. The midget, selected as a prospective leadoff man, won't offer at a ball unless it's right in the slot, and he's so small that the moundsmen haven't much of a target at which...

Author: By R. W. Paul, | Title: BASEBALL TEAM OPENS SEASON HERE WITH B.U. | 4/11/1934 | See Source »

...compel department stores to stock ready-made midget clothing. Proudly the Midget Hitler claimed that he had 250 members of his league already, announced an international congress for 1935, when 10,000 midgets from all over the world are to assemble in a Budapest bowling alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Justice For Dwarfs | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...ball bearings one inch in diameter have a maximum range of 100 yards, and firing practice can hence be held on almost any vacant lot. The guns, which are scaled approximately one to 1000, in addition to the usual traversing and elevating machanism, have telescopic sights, so that the midget objective may not be lost sight of in the vastnesses of Soldiers Field. The handling is similar to the large field pieces in all details, so that practice may be held before the trip to Camp Ethan Allen in the summer of the Junior year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Military Science Department To Have First of New Miniature Field Pieces | 2/27/1934 | See Source »

...follow our lead." However, the U. S. and Japan continue to build large cruisers.* Therefore Britain, which had intended to build three small Arethusa-type cruisers (5,450 tons, 6 in. guns) and one Leander-type (7,000 tons, 6 in. guns) next year, will now build a single midget Arethusa and two whopping cruisers of 9,000 tons each, equipped with guns whose size Sir Bolton did not reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 27, 1933 | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...achieved with Peggy Hopkins Joyce in the Vanities of 1923. Rain or Shine, his first starring vehicle, opened in 1928, ran two years on Broadway. He has four children - Joe (17), Josephine (18), Doris (12), Leo (7). He is a Roman Catholic. He always likes to have a midget living with him and in his shows. He thinks they are lucky. His house is full of statues of gnomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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