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...says. Her interest in collecting comes naturally: she is the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, whose multimillion-dollar collection of old masters was left to the Metropolitan Museum. Her parents were baffled when Electra got interested in Americana, and at 18 collected her first item: a $25 cigar-store Indian. As her daughter's stockpile of Early American dolls, quilts, pewter, decoys and trade signs grew, Mrs. Havemeyer asked in exasperation: "How can anyone who has been brought up with Rembrandts and Manets live with such American trash...
...onetime law student who flunked his exams and then scattered himself into a series of miscellaneous jobs (shoe clerk, cigar-counter man, etc.), Chicagoan Newhart learned the beginnings of his trade on the telephone, is still fond of it as a basic tool. He would call a friend and "try to break him up," making tapes of the conversations. The tapes were so funny that local radio stations bought them as "ratings boosters" to help raise the level of disk-jockey programs. On last year's Emmy Award program his Lincoln phone call stopped the show...
Fawn-colored pants, white shoes, a pink satin shirt with ELVIS embroidered on the back and a small Presley hat decorated with the hero's picture-all these festooned a fat, balding, cigar-smoking man in a four-room executive suite on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. Thomas Andrew ("Colonel") Parker, 49, is the discoverer, manager and part owner of Elvis Presley; although he tries very hard to look every inch a rube, he is known on all horizons of show business as the shrewdest pitchman who ever came out of a small-time carny into the big time...
...isolated cigarettes. "When I was writing about the psychological satisfactions of smoking, I'd happily light up," he said. "When I turned to the part on cancer, I'd sadly snuff it out." Business Editor Joe Purtell, who has smoked little since corn-silk days, takes a cigar "when given to me," smoked two while editing the cover story (both were gifts). Purtell's favorite smoking instrument is his ancient, 13-in. churchwarden, now held together by tobacco tar and Scotch tape...
...even cigar-smoking Sigmund Freud was not above poking a little fun at that notion; he once held up his long black cigar before a class and said: "Just remember, it is not always a symbol ?sometimes it's just a cigar." Small-Town Touch. By stimulating, anticipating and satisfying the public taste, R. J. Reynolds has built itself into the biggest and, according to Wall Street, the best-managed company in the U.S. tobacco industry. But it has never lost its oldfashioned, small-town touch. It resisted the glamour of setting up offices in New York City...