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Civilian prisoners would be equally surprised by "the castle"-the Navy brig in Portsmouth, N.H. To look after 480 inmates, it has 370 guards and other staff members, including three psychologists, four psychiatrists, and six chaplains. The white-towered castle is run by Marine Colonel Walter Domina, a cigar-smoking former fighter pilot who offers his prisoners a choice of 25 vocational-training programs. The prison library is stocked with 11,000 books; inmates are allowed to publish their own magazine, complete with girlie pictures, which they get from the Armed Forces Press Service. Since Domina took over last July...
...always been my dream to expand," said Thomas Stephanian, owner of Tommy's Lunch, as he sat at the counter and puffed on his cigar, "and now I'm finally going to get this opportunity...
Perhaps because it takes one to know one, perhaps because of the company they keep, psychiatrists are traditionally prone to behavioral quirks of their own. In a transcontinental airplane one day recently, a broadcasting executive was just settling down to his postprandial cigar when an attractive lady asked him to put it out. He recognized her as Dr. Joyce Brothers, whose cool, blonde analyses unkink snarled psyches on TV and in the newspapers, and hastened to extinguish the cheroot. But the aroma apparently lingered on and Psychologist Brothers came back. "I'll vomit in your...
Saturday was head track coach Bill McCurdy's birthday. By way of a gift, the varsity track team (and the freshmen too) gave him a Churchill Royal Jamaica victory cigar and the victory to go with...
Before the meet, head manager Ed Lincoln presented McCurdy with "the cigar created for Winston Churchill, master strategist and statesman, in honor of his defeat of a most potent military force." Lincoln said after the victory the McCurdy squad "overcame an equally potent military force at Harvard Stadium...