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...medical profession has proved almost as good promotion as the discovery in some old Philip Morris copy of a picture of a bellhop over the caption, "Call for Philip Morris." The best live bellhop in Manhattan was then found in the person of a dwarf named John Roventini, whose bellhopping ability was famed far beyond the Hotel New Yorker, where he worked. He is now 25, weighs 54 lb., stands 3 ft. 7 in. high. Known far & wide as Johnnie Morris, he pipes his call over :he radio, passes out packs of cigarets at Banquets, luncheons, openings, reunions, rides around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Marching Morris | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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