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Smile!: The best thing that I wear for North York is my smile, says Marilyn Lastman, who adds she would like to be several inches taller than her 5-foot-2
Smile!: The best thing that I wear for North York is my smile, says Marilyn Lastman, who adds she would like to be several inches taller than her 5-foot-2

Smile!: The best thing that I wear for North York is my smile, says Marilyn Lastman, who adds she would like to be several inches taller than her 5-foot-2

Date6/27/1991
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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An event five feet tall, Harry (Bob) Voulgaris, a restaurant owner (right), is fitted for a sports jacket in a new clothing shop restricted to men no taller than five-feet-five inches. Shop owner Lou Brown, left, says short men, generally pay too much for clothes, suffer humiliation in some stores.
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