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...Foreign Relations Committee presented hard-working Chairman Arthur Vandenberg with his ninth unanimous vote: a 13-to-0 approval of the China-aid bill. But four days later, as the bill reached the Senate floor, the committee report accompanying it exploded the birthday present like a trick cigar...
...Tories brought in their heavy artillery: Anthony Eden (currently recovering from an appendectomy in a London hospital) made an evening visit, and Winston Churchill motored over a twelve-mile route, chewing a cigar, extending his "V" sign, stopping frequently for short bursts of Churchillian oratory...
Communist pictures always show American businessmen as fat, heedless, cigar-smoking, worker-eating ogres...
Arrested also was the pink and plump 71-year-old Pauline, Princess of Württemberg, who sheltered them in their escape and established them in Bebenhausen, part of her former domain. When told that she could go out on bail, the cigar-smoking princess tickled her nurse and rocked with glee. The pair she sheltered will be turned over to U.S. authorities...
...Mexican who was unmoved by such warnings was swarthy, cigar-chomping Arturo Quiroz. As custodian of the 16-story National Lottery building, Mexico City's only floating skyscraper, he had only to transfer water from one to another of the four great ballast tanks beneath his building, then keep her steady as she went. Said he: "We'll ride it down. Everybody should be doing the same...