Word: midgetism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midget Billy Curtis, 29, 3 ft. 6 in., 79 lb., last January married onetime Manhattan nightclub Bouncer Lois De Fee, 19, 6 ft. 4 in., 190 lb. Last week little Billy Curtis, suing his big bride for divorce, complained: "She treated me like a doll...
...earth's smallest Republic, Dictator Benito Mussolini has usually had indulgent smiles. Respectful of San Marino's independence, II Duce has nevertheless insisted that the 32-square-mile midget nation, perched on a mountain top in northeastern Italy, should not be a refuge for Fascism's enemies. A few years ago, Benito the Builder obliged the Republic with a new winding electric railroad from Rimini to San Marino and a new boulevard down the middle of the nation to San Marino...
When J. P. Morgan was called to testify at the famed Pecora investigation of 1933, a midget suddenly perched on his lap, embarrassing the famed banker mightily but making the whole proceeding so ludicrous that public opinion swung to the Morgan side. Last week when Banker Morgan and his son, Junius Spencer Morgan, went to the SEC offices in Manhattan to tell what they knew of the Richard Whitney case, the only embarrassment was the blinding flicker of photographers' bulbs. Eyes closed in resignation, J. P. Morgan took the stand for half an hour. Respectfully treated by SEC Lawyer...
...runtiest stunt cinema has ever attempted, Producer Jed Buell (Harlem on the Prairie, TIME, Dec. 13) was last week collecting in Hollywood 200 midgets. Their assignment: an all-midget, musical Western, The Terror of Tiny Town. Quickest to follow Producer Buell's knee-high lead was Dr. Eugene Frenke, producer husband of Actress Anna Sten. His pint-sized project: Half-Buck Rides Again...
Reader Kurtz should know that it is as tactless to question a midget's published size as it is an actress's published...