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...Coast last fortnight the Army & Navy showed off some new aircraft:* the rocket-propelled Bell XS-1 (TIME, Dec. 23), designed to reach a supersonic 1,000 m.p.h.; the Navy's carrier-based XFJ-1 jet fighter; Consolidated Vultee's gigantic six-motored B-36, the "Flying Cigar," which can carry a 10,000-lb. bomb load 5,000 miles and return to base; Consolidated's needle-slim XB-46, the Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing, now being adapted to jet propulsion...
...organization devoted to amity of moppets everywhere). The Council in turn got the rock from Charles Henry Davis, a Cape Cod millionaire and idea man, last heard of when he proposed that an 80-ft. statue of Winston Churchill, with a beacon in the form of a lighted cigar, be erected at Dover (TIME, July 29). When Donor Davis heard of the mixed reception awaiting his rock in New York, he promptly ordered workmen to dump it off its trailer truck (see cut). It is now resting in a field near Yarmouth, awaiting a decision from Secretary General Trygve...
Clad in an black stovepipe had and long frock coat, the cigar-chewing saleswoman knocked down most of the available goods yesterday, including "Shafter," a vintage Chevrolet which went to Chris Parsons, Radcliffe '49, for the munificent...
...sallow, round faced man with a crew cut and a cigar clenched in his teeth might run serious risk of physical injury upon entering the Radcliffe yard, judging from the unfavorable reception met by these characteristics. Two conservative young students, obviously fed up with the deluge of ex-servicemen who have been storming the 'Cliffe of late, went so far as to write in negative votes beside "crew cuts," while seven delicate lasses raised their noses in the air and ejaculated, "Anything but cigars...
...Some top Laborites would also be pinched. Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood are heavy cigaret smokers. Clement Attlee smokes a pipe. Sir Stafford Cripps, despite his dietary austerity, likes a pipe, a cigaret or a cigar...