Word: midgeter
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While growing up in the Rosedale section of Queens in New York City, Masterson commenced his career with the Jets and matriculated through three years of Long Island Midget football and a year in the Pop Warner league before St. Francis Prep high school. The school's most famous alumnus is none other than Vince Lombardi--though Harvard star Rich Szaro, now a field goal kicker for the New Orleans Saints, also attended St. Francis...
...Hitler stalled its production until the Third Reich's final days. Held in custody for two years after the war, and like other German aircraft makers forced to observe a ten-year Allied ban on production, Messerschmitt turned to building sewing machines, prefab houses and three-wheel midget autos. In the early 1950s he again began to design planes, first in Spain for Franco and later in Germany...
Star Wars fans will recognize his touch in some fierce space battle scenes and seemingly three-dimensional images of stars and planets. Similar tricks were also used to move the various robots. Whereas Artoo Detoo was powered by a midget, Galactica's Muffit hides a chimpanzee, which Dykstra figured could more easily reproduce the unpredictable, jumpy actions of another animal, or robot animal. The formidable Lucifer, Count Baltar's aptly named robot assistant, however, does house a man. Since Actor Bobby Porter is only 4 ft. 11 in., the towering Lucifer has 18 unoccupied inches...
...Browns lost the 1944 series to the Cardinals. They also lost their momentum. Nothing, including the midget and clown introduced after the war by Bill Veeck, could lure the fans. Sold to a Baltimore brewer who brought them to his own city and renamed them the Orioles, the Browns played their last season in St. Louis in 1953. As they had for most of their careers, the team played to almost empty stands. But at least they kept tradition alive. The 1953 St. Louis Browns finished last...
...long time the picture of J.P. Morgan with the midget on his knee was the Washington view of capitalism-a bloated buffoon. John Kennedy once described a small-town banker as a man with shoes that were too tight, the pain from below traveling up to his face. Only a couple of years ago, Senator Henry Jackson lined up seven big oil executives as though they were schoolboys, and denounced them for their big profits in the oil crunch...