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...massaging entourage of yesmen, the old ham had only his personal valet, Lorenzo Chestnut, by his side. In Chestnut's hands were the familiar Berle off-screen props: a soiled towel for mopping the star, a glass of water, a fistful of Dunhill's Larranaga cigars with big white billing on the cellophane: "SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR MILTON BERLE." Said Lorenzo: "I keep one lit for him when he comes off." As Berle waited glumly for his cue, he scowled at a monitor and frazzled the seven-in. Larranaga. "Shush, baby, shush," he said to no one in particular...
...after the first run-through, "I did it all without a Teleprompter." He half-sprinted from set to set, waving technicians aside with "Hey, hey, look out!" And, when he learned that a technician's wife had just had a baby, he presented the new father with a cigar...
...comedian of vaudeville and nightspots, famed for his nonstop quips ("I, had a g-g-great day at the track. I got a r-r-ride home") and the Frisco Dance, a soft-shoe treatment of The Darktown Strutters' Ball trademarked by a tilted derby and a glowing cigar; of cancer; in Hollywood...
Cast adrift by the Government, Major Anderson stretched his orders beyond the snapping point, moved his men from Moultrie to Fort Sumter by night. When Southerners in Washington got the word, they rushed to the Old Public Functionary, who crushed out his cigar in the palm of his hand. "My God!" cried James Buchanan. "Are calamities never to come singly! I call God to witness . . . that this is not only without but against my orders...
Married. Edward G. Robinson, 64, Rumanian-born, onetime cigar-munching cinema tough guy (Little Caesar), now cast as a middle-aged Romeo in Paddy Chayefsky's play Middle of the Night; and Jane Adler, 38, sometime New York dress designer now working backstage; both for the second time; in Arlington...