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Unlike the great cigar-puffing Jockey Tod Sloan, who went in for monocles, valets and lavish entertainment (Tod once threw a $25,000 party for Actress Lillian Russell), Arcaro believes in the durable dollar. His chief extravagance is clothes; he owns 40 suits, mostly conservative greys and blues. He drives a 1947 Cadillac, reads FORTUNE to keep hep on industry, and invests in such blue-chip stocks as A.T. & T. He likes Scotch, but mostly on Saturday nights. He knows what happened to some of his predecessors...
...four sneak previews, audiences liked what they saw. Cracked Glass: "We are now solidly in a position to finance another million-dollar picture, but we haven't got a nickel for a cigar...
...There is no doubt in Kansas City as to who runs the town. It's big Roy Roberts, mighty, cigar-chewing mogul who sits complacently on his throne at 18th and Grand, and pulls the strings that make his puppets in public office jump to do his bidding...
...after his death, the people of India were vying with each other to enshrine Mahatma Gandhi. There were Gandhi auto works, Mahatma memorial colleges, Gandhi restaurants. In a Durga temple, an image of Gandhi now stood among the Hindu gods and goddesses. An enterprising manufacturer brought out the "Gandhi Cigar." The Congress Party planned a huge memorial fund (talked-of goal: $300 million), to be spent on such Gandhi causes as relief for Untouchables and village sanitation...
...hearing of the Chicago Tribune's Anglophobic Colonel Robert R. McCormick, who stalked out of the Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom when Rothermere began. The Colonel, tactful friends explained, is also allergic to cigar smoke...