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John Lewis sucked on a cold cigar cupped in his hand, occasionally yawned, occasionally belched...
Broadway Baby. The U.S. had never seen anything quite like Jimmy Walker. He grew up in Manhattan's Greenwich Village with the cigar smoke of Tammany Hall in his nostrils. His father was a Democratic alderman. But Jimmy's heart always belonged to Broadway...
Soviet newspapers carrying the Zhdanov speech featured a cartoon captioned Crew of Warmongers. It showed a fire truck driven by a cigar-smoking Churchill. The other firemen were Hearst, Baruch (with a bucketful of atom bombs), Franco, a Turk and a Greek. Said a poem accompanying the cartoon: "Although this crew carries a fire hose, it's really a flame thrower...
...schoolrooms throughout the U.S. last week, youngsters redecorated empty cigar boxes with U.S. flags and paste-ups from magazines, stuffed them with school supplies, sewing kits, warm socks and mittens, soap, toothbrushes, yo-yos. They were "Friendship Boxes," wrapped as gifts to the children of Europe and Asia from the children of the U.S. Every parcel included a letter from the sender, and some writing paper and a self-addressed envelope...
...excellent opening scenes, tight-packed with sharply observed detail, are models of celluloid suspense. Police Detective Thomas Mitchell coldly interviews the victim's neighbors until he tracks down Suspect Olivia de Havilland, hard at work behind her cigar counter. To the detective's consternation, Miss de Havilland has an identical twin. One of the girls was too near the scene of the crime. But the police cannot get a murder indictment without knowing for certain which girl has the unbreakable alibi. The twins themselves aren't talking...