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Belgium's most famous modern artist, Baron James Ensor, was 89 when he died last year. He had crammed his house with souvenirs that ranged from a cigar butt once left there by Belgium's King Albert to a great painting done by Ensor himself 62 years ago: The Entry of Christ into Brussels...
...Times, Virginia-born James still carries a cane and affects what Alexander Woollcott once admiringly called a manner of "extreme truculence, tinged with contempt." Occasionally, in a break from Times tradition, he bursts from his private office off the southwest corner of the city room, waving his cigar and copy and shouting, "This stinks," or something stronger...
...turn of the century, Italian immigrants in this country were plagued by a tightly organized secret society of tribute-collecting racketeers called the "Black Hand." If the immigrants did not pay up regularly, terrorists often demolished their homes with deadly cigar-box bombs, or kidnapped and lectured their children...
...Hahn had proved himself so able a booster of sales that Hill moved him into the presidency of American's biggest subsidiary, the American Cigarette & Cigar Co. There, Hahn took on American's new, king-sized Pall Malls and pushed them so vigorously that they started a U.S. fad for longer cigarettes. In ten years Hahn has pushed Pall Mall from eighth place to fifth-in all U.S. sales, according to trade reports. Even last year, when Lucky's sales slipped, Hahn boosted Pall Mall's 21.4%. Directors hope he can do the same for Lucky...
...with the millionaire, he never gives the audience a chance to stop laughing. He leaps gallantly to the defense of the abused lady in an apache dance team; he munches steadily ceilingward on a string of confetti that gets snarled in his spaghetti; he tries repeatedly to light his cigar but succeeds only in lighting the cigar that the millionaire is waving airily before his face. In another sequence, beautifully timed and sustained, he turns a prizefight into an uproarious ballet in which he and his murderous opponent dance briskly around a dancing referee...