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...Hattiesburg, Miss. A farmer's son, handsome, 6 ft. 3 in. Johnson rose from teacher, Circuit Court judge and Congressman to Governor in 1939-with the support of Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. He was famed in Mississippi's bizarre politics as the choice of the "runt-pig" people, he tried to stem lynchings, left the state a surplus approaching...
Lassie is the Mei Lan-fang of dog actors. She is a he. The name used to be Pal. Pal was born the runt of his litter. For a while, Trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who readies quite a few dogs and cats for the screen, had given Pal up as histrionically hopeless. But when M.G.M. saw the first rushes for Lassie, they immediately upped Pal's salary from $90 to $250 per week. Even Pal's stand-in got $100 a week...
...Example. As the 5-ft.-10-in. "runt" in a family of six-footers, Ted Timberlake took plenty of lumps growing up. Pat was his special idol in athletics. Because Pat had been a javelin thrower, Ted manfully tossed the steel-tipped spear around. Pat had been a star blocking back. Ted played one season, lost another with injuries, wound up warming the bench...
...sport where height pays off, it has only one player over 6 ft., Rudy Baric, right guard. Roger Hicks, left forward, is little larger or huskier than a jockey, while Scotty Hamilton, the other forward, is a real fat boy. Compared to most, Center Dick Kesling is virtually a runt. The team's gold-and-blue shirts have white jersey half-sleeves like those worn by British track athletes and give the impression that they were run up by the players' mothers or that the boys forgot to remove their underwear. Coach Dyke Raese is a dead ringer...
...must be kept busy and Hitler must be beaten. Beating Hitler would not necessarily mean the collapse of the Jap. But if the Jap can once call Singapore and the Indies his own, he can feed on the Indies-its oil, strategic metals, foods-growing new muscles on his runt-sized economic frame. Meantime the democracies would be cut short of rubber, tin and other strategic metals, tapioca (for sizing cotton and for abrasives), copra (for fats) and all the other vital supplies that the Indies supply...