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Residents of the Greenpoint (pronounced Greenpernt) section of Brooklyn never really thought Peter J. McGuinness would die. He was an old-fashioned Irish ward boss flourishing improbably in the 20th Century - and he seemed as durable as the last of the cigar-store Indians. Also, he was in such demand as a pallbearer that it was almost impossible to imagine him playing a passive role at a funeral...
...surprise, Consolidated Vultee got no more orders for its B-36 "flying cigar" (it is building 95). The Air Force has decided that the faster B-5O is better for its purposes...
...outraged archeologists loudly protested. The government relented, told the aroused historians that they could study findings on the spot, remove what they could. They descended like locusts, got in the workmen's way, spent hours and days photographing, sketching, and removing treasures of the past. Said a cigar-chewing truck driver: "I don't understand why these people make such a fuss ... It keeps my truck waiting hours...
...inhale when they try a cigarette. So he divided the steady smokers into inhalers and non-inhalers, and tested them again. The non-inhalers showed no significant increase in finger tremor. But the fingers of the inhalers trembled like aspen leaves: 82% more than before they began the cigarette. Cigar and pipe inhalers reacted the same way too. Moral: if you like to smoke but not to tremble, don't inhale...
...excitement of choosing Tom Dewey over Harold Stassen (see Republicans), Portland voters did not forget that they were also electing a mayor. Last week they rose up against flashy, cigar-chewing Earl Riley, who had been picked by the OWI as a "typical U.S. mayor" and sent on a wartime mission to Britain (TIME, Sept. 13, 1943). In Riley's place they named-for the first time in the city's history-a woman...