Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...described as a sultry brunette who spoke in silent-movie captions ("Mon Dieu, you ugly man! Tell me why you are such a fool!"). In this film, she is introduced as the svelte blonde secretary of an oil magnate who maintains his executive offices in a private jetliner. "Your cigar, sir," murmurs Irma (Elke Sommer), as she extracts a plump Corona from her ruffled cigarter. The boss lights up, draws deep, looks faintly startled as the cigar explodes a .38 slug that rips through the back of his throat and severs his spine...
Leone thrusts this hero forward insistently. The camera is tight on Clint Eastwood as he chews his cigar, clips a sentence, tips his hat, swallows soup. The concentration creates a giant out of a so-so Rawhide type. At the final confrontation with his enemies, Eastwood appears out of a cloud of dynamite dust...
Died. Roy Roberts, 79, grand old man of plainspoken journalism, who in 56 years held every job on the Kansas City Star from reporter to president, a rumpled, cigar-chomping extrovert who made his paper "the hair shirt of the community," mixing enthusiastic local coverage with a passion for national politics, promoted Alf Landon in 1936, backed Dewey, Willkie, Ike and Nixon, but supported Lyndon Johnson in 1964, putting the Star on the side of a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 80 years, then retired because of poor health and predicted, "I'll have the biggest...
...pleasures are somewhat simpler at Topridge, mountaintop summer hideaway near Saranac Lake, N.Y. Guests are flown in aboard Mrs. Post's 16 passenger Viscount, the Merriweather, then transported by limousine, launch and canopied cable car to her rustic aerie. The living room is furnished with stuffed bears, a cigar-store Indian, beaded rugs, totems, the war bonnets of Sitting Bull and Geronimo-all of which takes two servants four hours to dust. Each guest is assigned a cabin with one butler and one maid...
...Evans knew nothing about the business. Evans, for his part, upstaged Abernethy at press conferences, privately complained that his suggestions were being ignored. Friction grew worse when A.M.C. wound up fiscal 1966 with a $12,648,000 loss-its first since 1957. Finally, for all of Abernathy's cigar-chomping ebullience, sales of "Roy's Cars," as the new models are called at A.M.C., have been so disappointing as to force a ten-day shutdown of plants in Milwaukee and Kenosha...