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According to fireman John Lally, the conflagration was caused by a cigar butt left on the sofa. David N. Owen '61, a neighbor of the damaged suite, said he had smelled smoke for half an hour before turning in the alarm, but his roommates convinced him "it was only stale pretzels." Occupants of the I-43 suite were absent at the time...
...short grey beard, the cigar and the fierce twinkle of Berlin's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, 79, are second only to the face of Chancellor Adenauer himself as a symbol of resolution against the East German Communists. Toughness, as Dibelius well knows, is not all; he must protect the Christians in the Communist zone with plenty of canny compromise. But during the past few months, Bishop Dibelius began to feel that for the Evangelical Lutheran churches, it was all give...
Dawn was still two hours away when the old man parked his Jeep and set off through the fields of wind-grass for the sea. On the rocky Massachusetts beach, he used a pebble to hone the three hooks hanging from a cigar-shaped yellow plug with a red nose. Then, peering out at the dark water from under his long-billed fisherman's cap, he began to cast. In gentle, precise rhythm, his rod whipped back and forth until he lifted a leathery thumb from the reel and the plug soared 190 ft. out into the Atlantic...
...investigation widens, enters the caves of Negro London, from the lichenous flat of Tribal Chieftain Horace Big Cigar to Tulip's, a jazz club where a superbly directed, superbly erotic dance explores the universal rhythm of the Negro race. Whom did Sapphire know before she crossed the color line? One Negro girl is ready to tell, says: "I hated that high-yellow doll"; Sapphire had stolen her man. The police find him, a Negro bishop's son with a Mayfair manner and an Oxford accent. Had the bishop's boy ever intended marriage with Sapphire? Good heavens...
...stood there with a fat cigar in his mouth he was almost as surprised as I. I put out my hand, which he shook firmly, and I told him that he looked more tired than when I saw him at Harvard, which may or may not have been true, but which gained his attention for the moment. He admitted to keeping late hours since his American tour in April...