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...independent Hollywood producer spotted a hot property in a politician's life story, bought rights to make a screen biography of South Dakota's modest, cigar-puffing Republican Governor Joe Foss, 40. The script will need no embroidery. As ringmaster of "Joe's Flying Circus" on Guadalcanal in World War II. Marine Air Force Captain Foss led a hell-for-baling-wire fighter squadron, became a top U.S. ace by downing 26 Japanese planes, for his hazards later was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor. Added touch for Hollywood scenarists : Foss's yen to fly began...
...Never in history has any country contained such a high proportion of cowed and eunuchoid males, drilled with Prussian thoroughness to shun all household sins. Never, but never, do they drop cigar ashes in the icebox, prop their feet on a coffee table, leave an unwashed dish in the sink . . . They endure their married lives in mute docility, and die mercifully early in life from ulcers and high blood pressure...
...Kenya. In Mau Mau-scarred Kenya, where 40,000 whites rule 6,000,000 mostly illiterate Negroes, Ernest Vasey, 53, the cigar-chewing Minister for Finance, shocked the diehards by demanding a vote for Africans. Vasey urged that a limited number of educated Africans be allowed to participate in Kenya's next election-not on the high-minded ground that democracy demands it, but out of the hardheaded consideration that the alternative to votes is likely to be violence...
...sights can be more pleasing to art dealers than the appearance at their doors of Joseph Hirshhorn, a garrulous, hurrying little man with a big cigar. Multimillionaire Hirshhorn (TIME, Feb. 21) works with headlong intensity at his mining interests (uranium, gold, oil), "steals time" every week or so to make a whirlwind visit to a gallery. "I'll be in the middle of a meeting," he explains, "when I'll just get up and tell the boys I've got to go, but I don't say where...
...weekends. Hammarskjold is the most eligible bachelor in New York, but he keeps himself to himself. He goes bareheaded all the year round, wears ready-made blue or grey lounge suits, loafers, and bright bow ties. When he works he smokes a pipe; when he chats, a little cigar. He eats lightly and enjoys good wine...