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...contrast to the wake-like atmosphere at the Park Plaza--where reporters and hotel staff outnumbered the smattering of Carter supporters--a heady mixture of cigar smoke and jubilation marked the scene in the jam-packed Commonwealth Room of the Sheraton Boston...
Puffing on his third cigar, James S. Harrington '81, co-chairman of Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Reagan, predicted the election would mean "a long Republican ascendancy. We expected a victory, but the landslide was a surprise--it means we've finally broken down the New Deal coalition...
...Allard" is Don Allard, the sophomore who came into the Princeton game with 3:21 left and proceeded to lead Harvard close to a winning touchdown. Close--as in no cigar...
Youngman's style is what grants his humor a lasting quality. It's a rapid-fire technique that hasn't changed since he mastered it in the Thirties. He'd been working as a night club comic, employing a cigar instead of a violin as his prop, when he signed (without an audition) to do a six-minute spot on the Kate Smith radio show. He was an instant hit and the producer extended his routine to 10 minutes. With a $250 check in his pocket for 10 minutes of work, Youngman realized he was a sudden success. Since...
...paid off. The cigar-chomping humorist is now syndicated in 550 newpapers. Occasionally the USSR's Pravda or Izvestia prints one of Buchwald's columns--they especially like ones critical of the administration. "Every once in a while I get an angry call from the State Department, and they'll say, 'Do you know the Soviets used your column this morning?'" To which Buchwald said he always replies, "Stop them...