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Rolling into Cleveland to shake a baton at the local symphony orchestra this week, Britain's spleeny maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, 76, chomped a 60? cigar and gleefully spat in his host city's eye. Asked how he liked Composer Frederick Delius' Brigg Fair, a featured dish on Beecham's symphonic menu, Sir Thomas said: "It's a very bad piece of music. They'll like it in Cleveland...
...evident. Prosperity's bright star twinkled over Chicago, where the Pullman Building will be replaced by a 20-story skyscraper tinted gold; the star blazed briefly on Davy Crockett, who rocketed overnight into a $100 million moppet madness, on Ford's newborn $10,000 Continental-and on cigar makers, who had their best year since 1929 as 10 million Americans contentedly puffed 6.1 billion cigars. As 1955 ended, the U.S. could look back and truthfully say, as did Seattle Banker Miner Baker: "Anybody who can't find cause for at least selective optimism is just congenitally morose...
...Bored with the chef's chef-d'oeuvres. she was seen marching up to her suite with $50 worth of groceries in tow. She gave interviews from her bed, her hair like a black dustmop, her bag-rimmed eyes like the burning tips of cigars. Sometimes she actually lit up a small cigar and slunk about the room, her Magnanimous bosom heaving like a passionate surf as she flung out a flood of Italian. When informed that her first U.S. picture would be shown on widescreen, Magnani publicly sneered: "Poof! Widescreen!" When TV came with opulent offers...
...meet with the National Security Council. Most of the NSC members were flown to the camp, as the Cabinet was flown the previous week, in Army helicopters. (Asked what he thought of the Army's helicopter technique, General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, waved a big cigar and cracked:"They'll learn after a few years.") The meeting was on military matters- strength of forces and budget. Next day, in his office at the Gettysburg post office, the President worked over the same subject with Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson and Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman...
...house, Ainola, in the woods 25 miles north of Helsinki. He stays in bed late to read the papers, which arrive as gifts from all over the world. On the rare occasions when he receives visitors in the afternoon, he joins them at coffee cakes, cognac and a cigar. During the day he reads heavily (mostly history), listens to concerts on his powerful radio, and works. Nobody knows just what his music is like these years, but fans like to play guessing games about whether he has finished an eighth and possibly started a ninth symphony...