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David David Smalley liked smallish things. When he found one, he kept it, and eventually he had a mil­lion or two. If you’d like to see them, drop by his museum some Saturday or Sunday afternoon and visit Mr. Smalley. Even though he died in 1963, you’ll like him. The Hyde Park Miniature Museum in Houston is the perfect illustration of the dictum that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Almost nothing in the attic room in the white frame house at 1406 Welch is remarkable in itself, but as a unit, the museum is a memorable portrait of the eccentric, compulsive artist, craftsman...

Ron Grossman Chicago Tribune Even though an elevator was right outside the chamber serving as a courtroom, “police must plow a path through the crowd even that distance to let Robert stoop through the doors and into his ‘ride’ downstairs after each session of the trial,” the Alton (Illinois) Evening Telegraph reported on March 9, 1939. Every step of the way, the press trailed the 21-year-old. The hubbub was nothing new for Wadlow. It was his celebrity that brought him and Humberd together in federal court. By the time of his premature death in 1940, Wadlow had ...