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Passport to Prominence. In the depth of the Depression, George Craig went to Brazil to practice law with his father, and took whatever he could get-potatoes, meat, eggs and, once, three runt pigs-in lieu of cash fees. He became G.O.P. Chairman of Clay County, tried to get the nomination for lieutenant governor, and then got his passport to political success: in 1942 the U.S. Army Reserve called R.O.T.C. Lieutenant Craig to active duty in World...
...Representative Kit Clardy, who used to go around Washington muttering about "those Communists in the White House," ran on a platform of "I will vote as I please." Michiganders decided Clardy wouldn't vote at all-at least not in the House. And Illinois' C. W. ("Runt") Bishop was defeated after a 14-year House career marked only by his having been the manager of the Republican House baseball team...
Night People (20th Century-Fox). Razzle-dazzle, the art of hitting them where they ain't, has helped many a runt to make a winning score. This picture is a case in point. When Writer-Producer-Director Nunnally Johnson started his play, there was nothing very surprising in it: it was the safe old Berlin thriller-chase routine about an East zone kidnaping and West zone attempts to recover the fumble. But then Johnson started to call some fancy signals...
Herbert strains the budding romance by planting dead cats on the widower's doorstep with tags addressed to "Old Runt" and "Old Weasel." When such shenanigans pall, Herbert has his daughter read to him about Nazi atrocities at Belsen. "Lunatics are all about us," he warns...
...Charlotte's Web, The New Yorker's E. B. White retires, as all city intellectuals should, to a roomy barn on a large farm. Here, on a cosy dung heap, he sets Wilbur, a runt that is never likely to make much of a pig-a sort of porcine Cinderella, in fact. But thanks to bottle feeding by a little girl, Wilbur waxes so stout that he is a cinch to become the farmer's Christmas dinner. Wilbur's hard plight-considered first too puny, then too appetizing to live-excites the pity of a spider...