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...from practice. He tried making shoes, inventing an electric razor, singing in a national radio contest. Nothing worked. Then, as he later told the judge, "I suddenly remembered the theory of my professor of political economics at the University of Danzig. He said that a man who lights a cigar with his bank note is harming the entire society, for every bill in circulation contributes to the wealth of the society. Stretching the theory just a bit, one might well say that the man who makes a false bill and introduces it into circulation is doing society no harm...
...first job she was offered: playing a "cat woman" in a vaudeville show. Terrified of men after her experience with Henri, she clung to the first friendly women she met: a group of well-known literary lesbians. During the next six years, she lived as mistress to the cigar-chomping Marquise de Belboeuf and published three novels. At 40, mostly recovered from Henri and somewhat disillusioned with dykes, Colette married Paris Publisher (of Le Matin) Henri de Jouvenel, and six months after the wedding gave birth to her only child, a daughter also named Colette...
...Sculptor James Earle Fraser, has suffered little depreciation. Chief Big Tree has so much mettle, in fact, that he traveled down from his home near Syracuse, N.Y., to help the Chase Manhattan Bank observe the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. nickel. The celebration featured a nickelodeon, a cigar-store Indian and a carrousel buffalo. Alas, the original beast on the nickel's flip side was turned into a robe...
...Celt's castle. Led by Center Bill Russell, Boston hopped into a 10-0 lead after the first four minutes, ran the score to 76-60 by the third quarter. Finally, with a ten-point lead and 25 sec. to go, out came the famous cigar. Programs, paper cups, hats and pillows filled the air; screaming fans mobbed the Boston bench. With all those distractions, the Celtics could be pardoned for letting the Lakers slip in a few baskets; then they froze the ball...
Anyway, the house at length becomes overcrowded with monsters and beach people, until a chain reaction sets in and Ghost spirals down to a groovy finish. In the interim director Don Weis proves himself no cigar, but a half-decent movie and a promising new genre emerge in spite...