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...Fasanella's city is New York. As a young man he was a cio organizer among electrical workers; now he pumps gas at his brother-in-law's station under the Cross Bronx Expressway. And he paints-vast crowded canvases filled with 40-year-old billboards, saloons, cigar stores, subway entrances. It is easy to label him an urban Grandma Moses, but Fasanella's paintings are crammed with emotions that range from sentimentality to outrage at the assassination of President Kennedy. His strongest qualities as an artist are energy and a prodigal memory. One need not have...
...high affairs of state, Military Aide Chester V. (Ted) Clifton used to get a special signal. He knew what to do. He squared his shoulders, marched out of the room, returned with an important-looking folder, put it discreetly in the President's hand. Inside was a cigar...
Kosher Kitchens. The whole idea of assimilation has come to seem to some Reform Jews what it has always seemed to the Orthodox-the road to godlessness. Quietly symbolic of this reverse evolution is Rabbi Alexander Moshe Schindler, the roundish, cigar-smoking World War II ski trooper who was chosen to replace Rabbi Eisendrath as the U.A.H.c.'s president. Schindler was born in Munich 47 years ago. He joined the flood of refugees who fled to the U.S. in the late 1930s, eventually becoming the U.A.H.C.'S director of education and-six years ago-its vice president. Unlike...
...Americans were slow to face up to the import of the slaughters in Vietnam and the deceptions of Watergate, do not be surprised if Americans, especially older ones, are quick to rally around the energy crisis bandwagon. In the 1920s all this country needed was a good five cent cigar. Now, by the same logic, all the country needs is for someone to put a 50 mile an hour speed limit on the pace of life...
...himself," says the coach, who covers his own generous frame with flashy shirts and colorful wide ties. Overweight players are also required to follow a ritual called "tea day," consuming nothing but tea two days a week. Barking orders through a cloud of cigar smoke, Merritt teaches pro-style football -tough defense coupled with a grind-it-out, ball-control offense that features short passes...