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...pert, pint-sized, hot-butter blonde, shuffling chips across the green felt, looked as radiant as a girl who has just graduated first in her class. To her bosses at Reno's Nevada Club, her air of achievement was not surprising...
Vanilla Please. When a drugstore and a grill in Riceville, la. offered ice cream at the cut rate of 20? a pint, competitors lowered their prices to 15?. Soon the price war reached the point where ice cream was being given away. One store finally posted a sign: "One cent paid to those asking for a pint of ice cream and taking it out of the store." The war ended only when ammunition...
Died. Amedeo Obici, 69, pint-sized (5 ft. 1 in.) giant of the peanut business; of uremic poisoning; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. An Italian immigrant, Obici at the turn of the century opened a Wilkes-Barre peanut stand which eventually grew into the huge Planters Nut & Chocolate...
Beside the members of his husky flock, pint-sized (5 ft. 2½ in.), bookish Pastor Burger looks even smaller than he is. But he has a voice that can outshout any of them, and he knows how to use a picka-roon to nudge the four-foot "blocks" from their great stacks into the river, and how to help sluice them through the dams with a pike pole. "Wish I had a soft job," the men sometimes yell at him when he comes by in his red and black checked jacket; but they laugh when they...
...show's biggest asset is pint-sized Nancy Walker (Best Foot Forward, On the Town), who, as class-conscious Yetta Samovar, shows all her likable toughness, sharp timing and comic verve. But Nancy Walker's biggest asset is her way with a good brassy ballad, which she chants in a good brassy way, and Barefoot Boy allots her exactly...