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...mutual support, they met weekdays as the Vicious Circle, a social group that lunched at the Algonquin Hotel and traded mots and puns, Saturday nights over the poker table of the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. Of them all, none set journalism's banner higher than the cigar-smoking, pool-playing little gargoyle with the long neck and the big nose and the bushy mustache: F.P.A...
...Arthur Harrison Motley, 59, publisher-president of Parade magazine since 1946, was elected president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, succeeding Edwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who will become chairman of the board. Garrulous, cigar-smoking "Red" Motley, who has sold zithers, Fuller brushes and cough syrup, is sometimes called one of the twelve best U.S. salesmen, has hiked Parade's circulation from 2,000,000 to nearly 10 million, its gross from $1,800,000 to $25 million. He considers it his duty in his new job "to get the membership off its goddam...
Died. Robert Edwin ("Bobby") Clark, 71, comedian who convulsed audiences for decades by his frantic pace, greasepainted eyeglasses, a cigar that was sometimes in his mouth, sometimes flying through the air, a leer that "lit up the whole theater"; livened the dated comedies of Sheridan and Congreve with such earthy humor that critics acclaimed him the "funniest clown in the world"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After struggling to the top through the rich medium of vaudeville, circus, burlesque, Bobby ad-libbed through a series of revivals that were not worth reviving without him. In Victor Herbert...
Walter E. (for nothing) Heller _ is a grey-thatched, cigar-puffing financier whose business is taking risks that no prudent banker would consider. As head of Chicago's Walter E. Heller & Co., the largest independent U.S. commercial finance firm, he has helped finance the birth and growth of more than 13,000 small and medium-sized businesses-about one in 23 of all U.S. manufacturing corporations. Heller not only pumps in vital funds where banks shun the risk, but freely dispenses the advice and guidance that many struggling firms need as badly as money. His aim is to make...
...Chomped Cigar. In appearance, Grant was usually the antihero. He trudged through the war chomping a cigar, wearing an old slouch hat and a short blue coat without insignia. One perceptive Union officer saw him as a man with "no nonsense, no sentiment; only a plain businessman of the republic, there for the one single purpose of getting that command across the river in the shortest time possible." Grant learned by doing, and learned slowly. Leading his regiment against the Confederates for the first time, he was beset by a "cold, unreasoned sort of panic," and would have turned back...