Word: midgeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since World War II, the industrialists who built Hitler's Luftwaffe have kept a prudent silence. Beset by denazification tribunals, forbidden by the occupation to make plans, the aircraft manufacturers switched their lines to make a living: Messerschmitt turned to midget automobiles; Dornier fell back upon his construction interests in Spain and Switzerland; Heinkel put out machine tools and motor scooters from his Stuttgart factory. Two months ago, they formed an "Aero Union" to handle orders that might be coming from NATO, but thanks to the ban, and to French and British opposition to German rearmament, no orders came...
United We Stand. Convert Little's longest previous crusade was directed against Novelist Edna Ferber for daring to try to cut Texas down to midget size in Giant. Little turned out 39 columns about Novelist Ferber; in one, he offered to play host to an autographing party so that she could be publicly hanged ("The only new note in literary criticism ... in the last 30 years...
...what he has learned from monkeys. Dr. José M. Rodrigues Delgado has drilled holes in the skulls of anesthetized rhesus monkeys, jabbed fine electrodes (1/200 of an inch in diameter) deep into their brains, and carried connecting wires out to a tiny socket of the type used in midget radios. The sockets are attached at the back of the animal's head. The monkeys recover quickly from the operation, appear to feel no discomfort, and go about their monkey business as usual. Then, by plugging into the sockets and making connections with electrical instruments, Dr. Delgado can either...
...lesson, "Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed," is noted in every speech and action of his main character. And the pointless stories like "Did you ever fall in love with a 39 pound midget," are typical for the free-swinging, spontancously-humerous, Saroyan style...
...onetime landmark in Bridgeport, Conn, was marked for demolition by a real-estate developer: the full-size house with doll-size furnishings built in 1863 for the 31-in.-high circus midget Tom Thumb, who gained world fame and fortune with Circus Tycoon P. T. Barnum...