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...allied aviators of World War I established the tradition that an "ace" is a pilot who shoots down five or more enemy planes. In Korea last week, small, cigar-puffing Captain James Jabara of Wichita, Kan. (TIME, April 23) became the world's first jet-powered ace when he knocked down his fifth and sixth MIG-155, in "MIG Alley" near Sinuiju...
Time for Ernie (weekdays, 3:15 p.m., NBCTV) undertakes the strenuous job of parodying the antics of daytime TV. Wearing a pitch helmet and waving a cigar, Funnyman Ernie Kovacs does a take-off on a weather reporter, plugs a nonexistent beer called Lost (for the sake of the slogan: "Get Lost!"). More slapstick than satire, the show, unsponsored for obvious reasons, winds up sounding dangerously close to the real thing...
Quickly the plane climbed to more than 20,000 ft. There Pilot Haven opened the plane's bomb bay and lowered into the airstream a shining mass of metal. It hung 5 ft. below the plane, like a stubby cigar. Like a cigar, it began to bum at the tip, and it let out a whine like the wail of 10,000 banshees...
...center of all the hoopla, though will remain the South Bank exhibition. If it is nothing else, the Bank is a nicely designed job. It is dominated by a huge metal structure, called the Skyline, which looks like a cross between a V-2 rocket and a symmetrical cigar. When floodlighted at night, the Skyline looks as if it is floating in air without any means of support. This impresses blackout trained Londoners a good deal and when they show a visitor around the city at night they almost inevitably ride by the Bank and point...
Puckett's merchandising of unhappiness pushed Allied's profits from $25,000 when he took over to $13.7 million in 1950. Last week, as he puffed on a six-inch, 60? Havana cigar (he smokes 20 a day), 53-year-old Earl Puckett talked of a bigger aim. "When Hahn Department Stores was organized in 1928," said he, "they promised that it would become a $500 million-a-year company. We aim to make good on that promise...