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...sons of a German Jewish cigar merchant, Ernest Oppenheimer at his death was undisputed boss of the cartel that controls 95% of the world's diamond production, and he controlled more than 90 other companies worth an estimated $2.5 billion. His empire included coal, uranium, copper and some of the world's largest gold mines. Financially, he was the most powerful man in all Africa...
...Robert B. Riss, 31, resigned as president of Riss & Co., third largest U.S. over-the-road truck line, was replaced by his father, Richard R. Riss, 54, who founded the family-owned corporation in 1930, got out of the presidency in 1950 to turn to other pursuits (real estate, cigar business, oil leases). University of Kansas-educated Bob Riss, who once said candidly, "It's much easier to climb the ladder of success if your father owns the ladder," took over the presidency at 23, decided to withdraw after his self-made, hard-driving father began stepping back...
...after 10 years of covering the Long Beach waterfront, the Los Angeles Examiner's hardboiled, cigar-chomping Ben Reddick hoisted his last drink at Shanghai Red's and moved to a more elegant section of the coastline. For $8,400, Photographer-Reporter Reddick had become owner, publisher and editor of the weekly Newport Harbor News Press. Far from succumbing to the easygoing ways of Newport's cruise-and-booze set, Newsman Reddick covered the town as if it were just another waterfront, turned his paper into an aggressive, news-packed triweekly (circ. 4,445) that not infrequently...
...Loud huzzas) "Let's go. Tear it down. I'm starved." The Annunciator Drum and Bugle Corps laced into and out of "The Stars and Stripes Forever," dogs growled, flashbulbs popped. In a thick cloud of cigar fumes, the Council stood on the curb, anxiously awaiting the historic moment. Hizzoner, Monseigneur Hickey, and other luminaries mounted the huge bulldozer for pictures...
...determined, as soon as he is mustered out, to run for the U.S. Senate. In his first movie role, Comic Kovacs is approximately terrific, the funniest new funnyface that has been seen on the screen in years. His sneeringly ingratiating personality has all the morbid fascination of a mentholated cigar...