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...They started their fortune in a penny-ante cigar factory in Vera Cruz, fattened it to $60 million by dabbling in banks, ranches, real estate, steamship lines. They also became Mexican agents for General Motors, customs brokers for the Mexican Government...
...cigar's sickness ... a gas inspector is like an insect on a salad. . . . Your wife "will have hair as white as sugar and her ears will be unpaid bills - unpaid because you are dead...
...uncomplainingly ate the 700-calorie "austerity dinner" (tomato soup, baked chicken, potatoes, salad and one oatmeal cookie) for which they had paid $400 apiece. They whistled, whooped and slapped backs. Soprano Grace Moore rose with a flash of jewels, and sang a hillbilly song. Leon Henderson gave her a cigar...
...James's. Richmond's lawns were greening when he arrived in Virginia next day by train. There was a cold drizzle. Winston Churchill pulled a short raincoat over his striped trousers and black coat and got into an open car, gripping a gold-headed cane, puffing a cigar, grinning at the crowds from under his black Homburg. He raised his hand in the familiar V-sign. His old friend Ike Eisenhower was with him. As their car swished along the wet streets, the bells of St. James's Church pealed out God Save the King...
...into the historical past. He and Eisenhower had climbed into an 18th-Century coach when the horses, frightened by the photographers' flash bulbs, suddenly plunged and reared. Women screamed. Negro drivers grabbed at the reins. Eisenhower solicitously grasped Churchill's arm. Churchill, outwardly unmoved, puffed on his cigar, occasionally doffed his hat and gave his V-sign...