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...sawed-off, hammered-down, pint-flask-size men of the world hold their heads in pride high above their inches today. A new Napoleon has arisen to the height of five feet seven to lead the bantam brigade...
...will do you French all the harm I can." So said the pint-sized (5 ft. 2 in.), pale-faced Corsican named Buonaparte, who shunned his military schoolmates, read Plutarch in the library instead of playing games. Classmate Louis de Bourrienne also had the luck to be standing with 23-year-old Napoleon, then an out-at-the-elbow discharged officer, as he watched the howling mob sweep through the Tuileries to crown Louis XVI with the red cap of Liberty. He recorded young Buonaparte's Italian exclamation: "Che coglione! How could they let that rabble in? They should...
...Bedad, we'll not," the workmen replied. He offered free pints for willing workers, but the men answered that they valued their lives more than a pint of beer. Next, he turned to the oldest greybeards in the parish (one 95, the other 97), and offered them the job on the theory that they did not have enough years left to fear the vengeance of the fairies. They declined...
...hands noodle out a few bars from Gershwin's Concerto in F; then the man in the crumpled suit says: "This is Oscar Levant speaking. It's an identification that I have to make because I suffer from amnesia." Twice a week, in a pint-sized studio at Hollywood's KCOP-TV, Levant snaps at his guests, snarls at the camera, squints at the "20 outpatients" of his audience, sneers at his sponsors, scowls at the world, sits at his piano, twitching, squirming, blinking, playing. Says he: "I'm a study of a man in chaos...
...Half-Pint Without a Cause. In Towner, N.Dak., an empty cream bottle, left on a counter in the Golden Rule Store, collected nearly a dollar in small coins before a clerk noticed...