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...Cigar-puffing Manager Dykes, seldom at a loss for words, announced himself overwhelmed by the job of replacing Connie Mack. He soon snapped back into form...
Throughout the movie a bewildered and buffeted Chaplin tries to act with dignity, but somehow he never succeeds. When he is driving a Rolls Royce, he screeches to a stop to race a bum for a cigar butt; yet when he is down and out, he spends his last few cents to buy a flower from a blind girl. There is laughter in "City Lights," but that isn't the sole reason for Chaplin's universal appeal...
Young Teacher. Ab Cahan was a young teacher in Vilna, and a Marxian Socialist, when the Czar's police began shadowing him. He fled to New York, got work in a cigar factory. To learn English well, 22-year-old Ab Cahan unashamedly went to grade school with children, working nights so that he could do so. He devoted his spare time to the Socialist and labor movements, by 1885 was editing the Socialist weekly Arbeiter Zeitung and writing perceptive short stories about East Side Jews. His novel, The Rise of David Levinsky, written in 1917, is still regarded...
...World War II he became a legend -a brigadier general at 36, a major general six months later. In England, LeMay decided that too many of his B-17s were missing enemy targets because they zigzagged out of the way of heavy antiaircraft fire. He clamped a cigar in his jaw, led the next raid over Saint Nazaire, held his plane on course up to the bomb drop through murderous ack-ack for a grim seven minutes. Next day he issued a flat order: no more evasive action on the final bombing run. Plane damage went up, but results went...
...Hawaii. *An Ohio State classmate: Milton Caniff, creator of comic-strip Airmen Terry, Flip Cor-kin, Steve Canyon. -A bad sinus condition years ago paralyzed some of LeMay's facial muscles, making smiling difficult and exaggerating his reputation for ferocity. He has long used a pipe or a cigar to anchor these muscles...