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...Scouts, students, a uniformed midget and a legless man directed traffic in Guatemala City, which three weeks ago was the most heavily policed community in the Hemisphere. The Revolutionary Junta (Captain Jacobo Arbenz, Jorge Toriello, Major Francisco Xavier Arana) surveyed the smoking ruins of San José Fortress, whose guns had so often fired on the people of Guatemala, decided to make the place a children's park. Fifteen more generals fled to Mexico...
Divorced. Powel Crosley Jr., 58, manufacturer of Crosley radios, iceboxes and midget automobiles, president of the Cincinnati Reds; by Marianna Wallingford Crosley, 32; after one year, 9 months of marriage; in Cincinnati. Grounds: gross neglect...
...Berkeley, Calif.; at twelve he invented a miniature racing auto 19 inches long. Powered by a gas engine and guided by a cable, it sped around a circular course at 107 m.p.h. At 17, as head of his own company, Hiller Industries, Inc., Stanley was running a $100,000 midget racing auto business. He learned to fly when he was so small that he had to sit in his father's lap to reach the controls. With his father, he invented a machine for casting aluminum; since the war began he has been busy manufacturing cast-aluminum plane parts...
Reported Dead. Maurice Chevalier, 54, straw-hatted, camel-lipped vaudevillian; executed by French Maquis. Son of a starving housepainter in Paris's Menilmontant slum, Chevalier first took the stage at II as a midget comic, played baggy-pants burlesque routines while he grew taller. In his teens, he replaced the dancing partner of Paris's famed Mistinguette, in World War I landed in a German prison camp, escaped as a Red Cross worker. After the war he grinned and pouted his way from French casinos to frothy U.S. cinema successes (Love Parade, The Smiling Lieutenant), thriftily saved...
Smart Operator. Proprietor Billy Wilkerson is a suave, natty Tennesseean with drooping lips and a dark mustache. At 49, he is still as toughly handsome as a Central Casting Corporation gambler. On the Hollywood scale of business he is a midget; yet even in that hyperbolic community, he is regarded with respect. He is the editor-publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, in whose columns it pays, as all Hollywood is aware, to advertise. He promoted and operated the prodigiously successful Trocadero, a nightspot which took in $3,800,000 in two years and eight months. He is a confessed onetime...