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Dalton, who likes a cigar now & then, lectured the House of Commons and the nation on the dollar evils of smoking too much. Britons had spent a whopping ?603,000,000 on tobacco last year; it was almost one-tenth of the national income.* Said Dalton: "We are now smoking one-third more than before the war. About 80% of our tobacco is imported from the United States . . . and we are drawing heavily and improvidently on the dollars which we earn with our exports. . . . The whole total of our exports to the United States at this time barely exceeds...
...Next day cigar-smoking (and snuff-sniffing) Winston Churchill burned a rag under Laborite noses. Said he, in a London speech: "Our country is being driven to ruin and our Empire is scattered and squandered. Everyone is conscious of the approaching crisis in our financial and economic affairs. The Socialist Government is living on an American dole, and squandering it with profligate rapidity...
...dour little Belgian named René Magritte, have Salvador Dali's technical perfection but none of Dali's tiresome bag of Freudian tricks. Sample Magritte subjects: a fountain-as cool and wet-looking as the real thing-which spouts crystal mirrors, crowns, hands and cornucopias; a cigar box puffing a cigar; a door, set up against the sky, opening to admit a cloud; a glassy-eyed nude crammed into a bottle, entitled "inspiration," a beach sprouting sorrowful, earthbound pigeons, whose dull green wings flap like leaves in the wind...
...tradition have usually been accidental: the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head with a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers slid into the same base at the same time; the day Babe Herman almost started a fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket. Under Durocher, such rowdyism is a deliberate way of life...
Word from Home. In Des Moines, canny State Representative Harold Nelson left a cigar box planted with corn sprouts atop his desk, felt confident that restless farmer-legislators would demand adjournment when the sprouts began to sprout...