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...Portly, cigar-puffing Pierre, 43, owns an eighth of The Factory, the swinging Los Angeles nightclub that he founded last year with Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Anthony Newley, Paul Newman and four other investors. Although he has just sold his small interest in the San Diego Chargers, a top-ranking team in the American Football League, Salinger remains a director of National General Productions, the motion-picture producing arm of National General Corp. But Salinger's chief concern today is finance. He is chairman of Great America Management & Research Co. International (GRAMCO), which controls a fast-growing, Nassau...
...life ended in an explosion of violence. One night in 1945, while visiting his son-in-law at the Austrian resort of Mittersill, he stepped outdoors for a cigar, unaware that U.S. occupation forces were at that moment closing in on the house to arrest his son-in-law for black-market activities. Somehow he encountered a U.S. soldier in the dark. He was shot, staggered inside and died...
...Democratic machine, Unruh has shed 90 lbs. since he fell in love with dissent; he now chairs the 172-member delegation that won a three-cornered primary contest in support of Robert Kennedy against groups committed to McCarthy and to Humphrey. Unruh is uncommitted and angry. Through cigar smoke: "The gap between political leadership and the people is widening at the very time it ought to be narrowing . . . We're not going to the convention simply to validate decisions someone else has made in some back room in Washington...
Where was Woodrow Wilson's exasperated Vice President Thomas Marshall moved to complain, "What this country needs is a good 50 cigar!"? See NATION, Closing the Republic's Clubhouse...
...airs there in Willard's sumptuous parlors and barrooms, or anywhere-no explanation will save you. Bull Run is your work." Prices at the hotel's tobacco stand made Woodrow Wilson's Vice President, Thomas R. Marshall, huff: "What this country needs is a good 5? cigar...