Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plunging from a chuckle to a shout, bellowing into a telephone in his broad Yiddish accent, flourishing an unlit cigar, Dubinsky directs this show with shirt-sleeved zest and an even hand. Says he: "You've got to be on your toes, not on your bottom...
Chairman Vinson had promised that there would be no whitewash-and no fishing expeditions either. "I didn't catch the question," Vinson remarked blandly when one witness began to wander. "I was smoking a cigar...
...Tough, cigar-chomping Lieut. General Curtis LeMay, who succeeded Kenney as head of the Strategic Air Command, went even further. He did not argue that the B-36 was invulnerable to opposition; Bomber LeMay knew only too well that any aircraft can be knocked down. But, said LeMay, "I don't think the question whether it can be shot down enters in-it's whether you can penetrate to and destroy a target with acceptable losses . . . If called on to fight, I'll order out the B-36 crews and be in the first plane myself...
Died. David Albert Schulte, 76, president (1903-48) and principal owner of the nationwide Schulte cigar-store chain, chairman of the board (1923-45) of Park & Tilford, Inc. (liquor and cosmetics), president of Dunhill International, Inc. (tobacco and perfume); in Holmdel, N.J. One of Manhattan's biggest real-estate operators (he had an intuitive genius for choosing the right corner-site retail stores), Schulte began as a $5-a-week errand boy, ended owning nearly 200 stores in 125 cities...
...cerebral hemorrhage) left the 68-year-old gadfly partially paralyzed and stilled his buzzing. But not entirely. Even as he was brought to a halt, his latest book was in the printer's hands. It will remind old readers and explain to many a new one why the cigar-chomping, beer-guzzling Sage of Baltimore has been the most effective irritant in U.S. writing history...