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...three days the hearings went on, behind closed doors in the C.I.O.'s limestone headquarters on Jackson Place, which looks out on the garden of Blair House (Harry Truman's bedroom is not much more than 50 feet away). William Steinberg, president of the pint-sized American Radio Association, was the prosecutor, and three C.I.O. union officers the judges. Bridges, accompanied by a gaudily shirted Hawaiian aide, argued back that all the charges were red herrings. Since a San Francisco federal jury had already decided that fiery Harry Bridges was a Communist, there seemed little doubt about...
...Third Man. The argument began around 1935 when imperious, pint-sized David Robertson, boss of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,* woke up to a new fact of industrial life. Oil-burning diesel engines, which railroads were using in increasing numbers, were being operated with only one man, an engineer. A lot of firemen were going to be out of work. Robertson demanded that a fireman be put on every diesel (to tend no fires, but to make an occasional check in the engine room, keep an eye on gauges, and help the engineer look out the window...
Before long, teachers from all over town were parading their charges through the museum, many for the first time. The kids fondled Daniel Boone's own flintlock, modeled the formal tasseled coat worn by one of the city's founders, pint-sized ("Boy, was he a shrimp!") Auguste Chouteau. As the children listened to the story of St. Louis' great fire of 1849, they clambered over the old fire engine, tried on the old derby-like helmets, shouted through the trumpet megaphones used by the fire vamps...
...screen. In 27-year-old Sid Caesar he has a TV-raised multi-dimensional comedian who is equally convincing as a slot machine, a head-lolling infant, a British general or a Freudian psychiatrist just off the plane from Vienna. Caesar's comedy partner is pint-sized Imogene Coca ("No one knows how old she is"), who can switch from a prim Victorian to a stripteaser to a Wagnerian Valkyrie without missing a nuance or a laugh...
...been one of them. He knew the angles. Said he: "The Devil will come and bring you another bottle of smoke. You'll go over to Second Avenue and sell a pint of blood for five bucks and get drunk again before the day is over . . . Come and get God's help...