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...nation lies defenseless, a Gulliver in Lilliput with Harry Truman as the second most Lilliputian of them all and Johnson a midget among them. We have only four combat airplanes, two tanks (one being Johnson himself), five six-star generals and a converted armored yawl, once the property of Josephus Daniels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bloody Triangle | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...Women and Dogs ought to be quite a document in its own right. After Thurber's opening lecture, the rest will consist of: 1) animated versions of the stories, You Could Look It Up (how a big-league ball club won a pennant by-sending a midget in to bat) and The Unicorn in the Garden (how a woman tried to have her husband sent to the booby hatch and was instead committed herself); 2) dramatizations, using flesh & blood actors, of four of the "Mr. & Mrs. Monroe" stories, dealing with marriage perplexities; 3) another animated lecture, urging the superiority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Priceless Gift of Laughter | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...Gets You." At ease in his Paris suite last week, Sugar Ray was riding th crest of the wave. He is surrounded by an admiring entourage of eleven, including a French midget (for the laughs), a personal golf pro, and a private barber who spends hours touching up Robinson's unscarred good looks with facials and hair-straightening treatments. Unlike many, another boxer, Robinson has invested his ring earnings in a series of profitable businesses: Sugar Ray's Café, a barbershop, a drycleaning establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Businessman Boxer | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...blushing amateurism of Harvard sports leaves you cold, Boston is a big enough town to supply professional baseball, dog racing, horse racing, midget auto racing, and wrestling by both men and women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Lure Some Students to Soldiers Field; Others Pick Professionalism of Boston Arenas | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

...prefer watching professionals exert themselves, the Braves and the Red Sox cavort at least once daily, the horses run every day except Sunday, and the midget auto cars are only a short way out of town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring . . . A Challenge to the Scholar | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

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