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...Kansas. In 1934 D.R. and Isla were married. By then Obert Miller's show had grown to four dogs, four ponies and a monkey, a big enough production to accommodate the newlyweds. For their efforts, D.R. and Isla earned a quarter a week to split. D.R. always bought a cigar with his portion, and Isla bought a candy bar with hers--"a big old PowerHouse; remember those?" By 1937 D.R. and Isla had a piece of the action, as they have had in one circus or another ever since; thus 50 years of ownership. Since 1969 the organization has traveled...
...woman wearing a scarf over tightly rolled hair curlers, and toreador tights over troubled thighs, gave off a brassy laugh as she came across the nose art on a bomber called Whistler's Mother. It depicted a cigar-smoking tart with a mug of beer in one hand, a bomb in the other. "Now that takes me back," she said. "I used to know everything about these things, but that was three husbands ago. You couldn't ask me anything now." After the crowd had had a chance to inspect the craft up close, the show cranked...
...Friday--The American Heart Association names Fidel Castro its first annual Man of the Year. "We're delighted that such an important leader has set an example for the world's youth by kicking the filthy cigar habit," says a spokesman. Director of University Health Services Warren E.C. Wacker comments, "What a bunch of dildoes." "They'll never get their hands on my pipe!" vows Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom...
...leader of the criminal gang, Defendant Georges + Courtois, 38, had in mind when he demanded that television cameras be brought into the courtroom. "You have been judging me," the gaunt Courtois said with icy calm. "Now it is our turn to judge you." Waving a pistol and smoking a cigar, he launched into a lengthy harangue, warning that the "slightest attempt" by police to intervene would mean bloodshed. His words were quickly broadcast to spellbound TV viewers all over France...
...failed to last. Some major deals made over the years turned into king-size turkeys. Gulf & Western, once among the largest and most acquisitive conglomerates, has sold in the past three years some $3.5 billion worth of properties acquired during the 1960s and '70s. These range from a cigar company to a former site of Madison Square Garden in New York City. Says Chairman Martin Davis: "I just don't think you can manage all these businesses well." The ITT conglomerate that Harold Geneen put together in the 1960s is also being dismantled...