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...Cigar Hunt. When Mrs. Ballou isn't bear-hugging her little darling, she likes to gaze fondly at her college diploma framed upon the wall. Some people, she points out to Benjy, lack her advantages. The most conspicuous lackee is Daddy Ballou, a monosyllabic TV repairman. Daddy usually climbs into the TV set after dinner, or sometimes with his dinner, and fiddles with a few wires. Daddy and Mummy also play a game called "Cigar Hunt," which Mummy generally wins with the magic words. "All right . . . hand it over!" For Mummy's sake Benjy is anxious to straighten...
...Black Egg. Naturaly this does not endear little Benjy to the dirty-fingernail set in the schoolyard, but Benjy has his reward when his Good Fairy shows up. An offbeat sort decked in a baseball uniform and chomping an outsize cigar, this Good Fairy grants Benjy's only wish that "whatever big and marvelous things happen to little Benjy . . . will happen to his dear Mummy, too!" Months pass, and nothing happens until one day Mummy and Benjy drag sulky old Daddy out on a picnic. Benjy spots a giant black egg. and Daddy tells him not to fool around...
Aside from lack of money, the deprivation that most troubled Freud in postwar Vienna involved cigars. Imported ones were unobtainable in near-bankrupt Austria, so visiting analysts smuggled them in. Though he knew that his jaw cancer might have been caused by smoking, Freud would not quit on that account. With his shrunken tissues and "the monster" interfering, he sometimes had to pry his mouth open with a clothespin to get the cigar in. Even so, he enjoyed up to four a day. At one time, when he had heart trouble marked by anginal pain, he quit smoking and boasted...
During the years of retirement, Sibelius never moved far from his house, wrapped himself in cigar smoke and in music (he liked to listen to concerts from all over the world on a powerful short-wave set). Said he wistfully of jazz: "If I were only younger!" Of cowboy ballads: "They never get grey hair, do they?" He was said to have composed steadily, but nobody was able to discover just what the music was like. From 1932 on, when the late Serge Koussevitzky announced that he hoped to premiere Sibelius' Eighth Symphony with the Boston Symphony, audiences looked...
...saloonkeepers get parking tickets fixed . . . I heard my fellow policemen boast openly of freeloading on liquor and food -'living on the badge' they called it . . . Time and again I heard the smart-alec patrolman brag about his 'take,' repeating his motto: 'Never take a cigar that ain't wrapped in green...