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Annoyed, A.F.L. President George Meany answered Mitchell the next day with a lecture on courtesy: "You don't flip your cigar ashes on the floor when you are visiting friends, as you do when you are at home." Just before Ike's visit, out of a long list of pending resolutions, the convention unanimously passed No. 126: an all-out attack on the Administration ("government of, by and for big business...
...them all, held court with his beautiful wife Constance. But it was not the distinguished company that made the house a delight to the young Wildes; it was "the smiling giant, always exquisitely dressed, who crawled about the nursery floor with us and lived in an aura of cigar smoke and Eau de Cologne." Unlike many another stiffly Victorian parent living on Tite Street, Wilde was always ready to romp with his boys, mend their toys and enter into their games...
...officer, Colonel De Rancourt, now air attaché at the French embassy in London. "You once confined me to quarters for ten days," Mendès said, recognizing him. "It was 14 days," the colonel replied. "You proceeded on a mission without orders." A rotund, familiar figure with a cigar was also on hand at Biggin Hill. Sir Winston Churchill, 79, who had driven seven miles from his country house at Chartwell, addressed his visitor, with his usual disregard for any language but English, as "Monsoor Mends Fra-a-ance." Then the old British bulldog and the spry little Frenchman...
...Chicago for the World Council of Churches assembly (see RELIGION), Germany's famed Pastor Martin Niemöller lit a long cigar and discussed tobacco as the hallmark of the theologian. Puffed he: "If he smokes cigarettes, he's liberal. If he smokes cigars, he's orthodox. If he smokes a pipe, he's dialectic. If he doesn't ( smoke, then he cannot be a theologian." Niemöller then admitted that the theory was not his, but that of Switzerland's pipe-smoking Theologian Karl Barth...
Likely winners would be "put in the book" for probable listing in "Spotlight"; the rest would be turned down. Reporter Bob Rolontz (the M.A. candidate) was seated behind the turntable, cigar in mouth, pertinent data about title, label, publisher and performers at his fingertips. "Viola Dixxy-yeah, two x's," he announced, "singing Everyone Is Saying. We heard this last week, but maybe it's worth listening again for the girl-new talent." He played a few bars of a nondescript song by a pleasant, commonplace voice. "The girl, that's all there is to it," said...