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Cline R. Paden of Lubbock, Texas went to Italy eight years ago to establish a beachhead for his Church of Christ. He found the way of the missionary hard. First there was the matter of the license, required for any enterprise in Italy, from a church to a cigar stand. Paden could not have a license because he had entered Italy as a tourist, and his application for a permanent residence permit would have to wait. Tourist Paden lost patience and put up a sign on his building in the Via Achille Papa, in the shadow of the Vatican...
...best years of his life to his country. Gaston Le Torch had suffered enough wounds to rate a decent pension, was married to a sensible, loving wife who honored him for a missing eye and a severed thumb, and had philosophically tucked his handful of medals into an old cigar box. With nothing else to occupy him after World War I, Gaston began, like many another retired hero, to run down his family's history. Thus he discovered his family's dishonor: on a day in October 1697, Captain Eugéne Le Torch, commanding the frigate...
...Cigar-Shaped Peril. In the Pacific last March, the hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll sent a shower of deadly radioactive dust (mostly pulverized coral) over a vast cigar-shaped area extending 220 miles downwind from the blast. Along a strip up to 20 miles wide, extending 140 miles downwind, the fall-out-if it had come down in a populated area-would have seriously threatened the lives of nearly every human. At a distance of 160 miles the lives of half the people would be threatened; at 190 miles 5% to 10% might die (varying with individual reaction...
Joseph H. Hirshhorn is a fast-talking cigar-chewing promoter from Brooklyn who quit school at 14 to support his mother, was a millionaire at 29 and now, at 55 says he hasn't the faintest idea how much he is worth. "After the first million," explains Hirshhorn, "unless a man loves money, it's all meaningless." Last week Promoter Hirshhorn signed a multimillion-dollar agreement that had plenty of meaning, as well as money, for him. The deal will make him the No. 1 uranium producer of Canada, if not the world...
...Stanley L. Brown, 43, was lured away from the James B. Beam Distilling Co. to become president of Park & Tilford Distillers Corp. He succeeds Arthur D. Schulte, who continues as chief executive officer in his new job as board chairman, vacant since the death (in 1949) of his father, Cigar-Store-Chain Founder David A. Schulte. A native New Yorker, Brown started selling shoes at 18, studied journalism in New York University night school, tried reporting for New York's Daily Mirror, went back to selling shoes, later became general merchandise manager for Chicago's Goldblatt Brothers department...