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This richly documented chronicle of Churchill's first four decades by the versatile biographer and journalist (Maugham; Rowing Toward Eden) catches Churchill on all fours. Here, the world statesman is still a vote-grabbing politician, and the supreme war strategist a romantic blunderer. The omnipresent cigar, the V sign and the stentorian voice on the wireless are a World War away...
Lighting is the vital element in main-taming the illusion. Full-time Technical Director Carl Callaway, who has spent 38 of his 48 years working on the pageant, has mastered the art of creating an impression of flatness, the opposite of most canvas artists' aim. A brawny, cigar-chomping character who doubles as carpenter, electrician, painter and engineer, Callaway faces the major problem of lighting a show that is held after dark in a variety of weather conditions...
Haig was ready to board this flying cigar tube when the Congressmen's 707 developed engine trouble and they switched to a smaller DC 9. Haig then decided to wait 14 hours for an engine change on the 707, which he finally boarded at 3 a.m. Said an aide: "After all, the British fleet was not going to get to the Falklands by morning...
DIED. Nathan f. Twining, 84, tenacious, cigar-chomping Air Force general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960; in San Antonio. A World War II commander of U.S. air campaigns in Europe and the South Pacific, Twining was an unfaltering proponent of airpower and military might. B-29s under his command dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...strange shadows the subject matter casts. Written by Marc Blitzstein in the depths of the depression. Cradle paints the struggles of infant unionism through a severe but jazzy stylization. The single piano hammers in the background as the residents of "Steeltown, U.S.A." battle the manipulations of the inexorable, cigar-chomping "Mister Mister" (David Reiffel). Mister Mister owns the factories and the town newspaper and heads the union-busting Liberty Committee, his wife bribes the preacher to fan war hysteria so steel prices will stay high, while his henchman track down dirt on the heroic labor-organizers who are trying...