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...readers is forever rising. Of the Pacific Stars and Stripes columnists, who include Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Red Smith and Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren, the most widely read by far is Ricketts, a Buddha-shaped (5 ft. 4 in., 175 Ibs.) 32-year-old who chomps a long black cigar with a ferocity suggestive of filmdom's bad guy, Edward G. Robinson (see cut). The Ricketts wit is the sort that leads to lynching. As entertainment editor of the Pacific Stars and Stripes, the U.S. armed forces newspaper in the Far East with a circulation...
...cigar-chomping kings of a somewhat mysterious industry gathered in the New York Trade Show Building last week, unrolled their duffel bags, and pulled out what was possibly the most overwhelming assortment of white elephants ever assembled under one roof. There were old ammunition cans and "slightly used" jungle shorts, cordless electric blankets and rubber ripple mats, as well as powder horns from Germany and inflatable snakes from Japan. The occasion: the 15th Trade Show of the Institute of Surplus Dealers...
...grew up with the idea of buildings on stilts," said Sullivan, taking a puff on his cigar. "I want to rebuild Cambridge." Cambridge, he says, has more open space than any city around, and he has taken upon himself the task of filling it. Because he has scored one major victory (and several minor ones), he is calmly optimistic, despite the strong opposition that is apt to greet his ideas. Although thwarted in his attempt on the waters of the Charles, he registered a smashing success with his motel (now the Treadway) on stilts over a parking lot in Brattle...
...number of shy male track stars. Tentative applause rippled around the gloomy tiers of the Garden at the mention of her name by the announcer ("The woman of the year in all sports through the world"). Then Wilma began to run with her long, floating stride, and suddenly the cigar-chewing track buffs-the men who had seen them all-began to cheer like schoolboys...
Wilma won her first heat by 10 yds. Before the semifinal, she whiffed spirits of ammonia to clear her head ("Cigar smoke always gives me a headache, and there's lots of cigars here") and again won by 10 yds. In the final. Wilma came off the blocks a split second behind the field. Then, as an appreciative, hoarse male bellow swept through the Garden, Wilma turned on her speed with 30 yds. to go and won as she pleased. Her time of 6.9 sec. tied the world record she herself had set last month in Los Angeles...