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...Wouk relaxes with a martini and a long Havana cigar ("They are like lollipops"), plays with his boys Nathaniel, 5, and Joseph, 17 months...
Next, Wouk went to work (at $15 a week) for a cigar-chomping "czar of gagwriters" who ran a joke factory supplying gags to Fanny Brice, Lou Holtz, Eddie Cantor et al. Wouk's job was to clip and card-index old jokes and to clean up the off-color items. Two years later he was hired as a radio gagwriter by Fred Allen. His special chore for the Allen-program: the "People You Didn't Expect to Meet" interview, for which he unearthed weirdies, e.g., a goldfish doctor, a worm salesman and "the man who inserts...
...elaborately carved wooden hats adorned with ermine skins and sea-lion bristles, and carrying their ceremonial staffs. The meals alone involved prodigious waste: one massive, carved, 14-foot-long wooden trencher held 120 gallons of fish stew. The host would often perform a ceremony roughly equivalent to lighting a cigar with a $100 bill: he ladled out the savory fish oil onto the fire. The stoic guests proved themselves unimpressed by sitting motionless even when the flames blistered their legs and set fire to their bearskin robes...
...think something's wrong if they don't." Carpenter agreed dazedly. Once outside, Powell told Stella to keep going. "When they were safe, I slipped into the gangway where he couldn't see me from the window, leaped a fence and ran to a cigar store to phone the police...
After a wartime layoff, during which he served as an infantryman in the French army, Urruty went home to concentrate on pelota. By then he could whip all comers. Once one of his ardent admirers presented him with a big cigar. Deeply honored, Urruty returned the compliment. He gave his fan, Sir Winston Churchill, a chistera as a souvenir...