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General Dwight D. ("Ike") Eisenhower, responding to an appeal for blood donations, stood in line with other volunteers, gave his pint. As he was leaving, a soldier recognized him, cracked: "Hey, that would be the blood to get." Said Ike: "If you do, I hope you don't inherit my bad disposition...
...Pint-sized, scrappy Lieut. James Deloach peered through the forest gloom at two men locked in a murderous struggle. He saw that one had a wire looped around the other's neck, and that the man being strangled was a Jap. When the job was done, he nudged the killer and mumbled approvingly. The killer answered in Japanese. Deloach shot...
...A.A.F.'s Wright Field laboratories: a solar still, now widely used on life rafts, which distills sea water by the sun's heat in a transparent plastic bag, produces a pint of fresh water a day on a sunny...
...pint-sized, 45-year-old Billy Rose, The Seven Lively Arts is merely one more exhibit in a great glass-enclosed Hall of Showmanship already crowded with displays. Billy today is Broadway's most spectacular if least likely-looking impresario, in whose brashness, love of effect, and shameless pursuit of publicity lie real daring, an instinct for the effective, a canny knowledge of the public...
Herald oldsters shook their heads when the offices were moved in 1930 to new, shiny quarters in the fashionable Etoile district and deplored the ideological contortions by which the paper sought to preserve its German and Italian advertising. But when in 1940 perky, pint-sized British Managing Editor Eric Hawkins (who once edited a reporter's "So's your old man" into "Your father is also") published almost singlehanded the last edition of the Herald before the Boche marched in, sentimental newsmen knew the conquest of Paris was complete...