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...nerve center of the Secretariat is the immaculate 38th floor, paneled with Norwegian spruce and aflame with modern paintings: Picasso, Matisse, Braque. There, amid his paintings, toying with a small cigar at his clean Swedish-made desk, sits the man in charge of it all: Dag Hammarskjold...
...drinking since. At cocktail parties he takes a Manhattan, eats the cherry and leaves the drink. At a union meeting once, he promised to "have fun with the boys afterwards" in return for a favorable vote. Reuther won the vote and, as promised, had fun: he smoked one cigar and drank one small beer...
Victims & Packs. The crude figures were striking enough: in 32 months, lung cancer had killed only 33 per 100,000 of the observed nonsmokers, but 246 regular cigarette smokers-more than seven times as many. Cigar smokers had about the same rate as nonsmokers; pipe smokers had double the rate. But when Dr. (of Science) Hammond pinpointed his attention on the 168 cases in which typical carcinoma of the lung had been most clearly proved, he found the disparities even more striking. In this category, there were only two deaths among men who had never smoked-a 32-month rate...
...likelihood goes up with the amount smoked: if a light smoker (up to 15 cigarettes daily) has X chance of larynx cancer, a 16-to-34 man has almost double that chance and an over-35-a-day smoker nearly four times that chance. Noninhaling cigar and pipe smokers run about the same risk as 16-to-34 cigarette men (higher, relatively, than their risk of lung cancer...
Once upon a time, there was a boxing manager who was so honest that to keep himself in coffee and cakes he also had to run a gymnasium that catered to hopeful fist fighters. (No spitting on the floor, put cigar butts in cuspidors.) There he developed a surefire system for picking winners. "Their built don't matter so much," Bobby Gleason liked to explain. "What they gotta be if they want to get along in this racket is a little stupid...