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...London, bumptious, brilliant Jacob Epstein unbared his new Lucifer (see cut) which looked something like a winged cigar-store Indian. It was less likely than his prodigiously progenitorial Adam to be exhibited by others for a cheap pornographic thrill (TIME, April 29, 1940). Lucifer had been modeled in clay, then cast in bronze, possessed the refined detail peculiar to modeled figures...
...Russias, filed out on the green turf of London's Stamford Bridge Stadium. Each player carried a bunch of red and white carnations, which he presented to his opposite number on Britain's Chelsea Club. The British, in turn, gave the men from Moscow cigar lighters...
...could exports pay the way. All of the 41 sugar centrals were damaged by the Japs, and much sugar land was ruined in an abortive Jap attempt to raise cotton. In the tobacco-growing Cagayan Valley in northeastern Luzon, only one cigar factory escaped serious damage. (The tobacco industry once furnished 25% of Government revenues.) The rich gold mines (prewar output $39,000,000) were caved in and looted of machinery. Small farmers have no tools; most of their clumsy carabaos, the Filipinos' animal of all work, had been slaughtered for food...
There was C. C. Cambreleng, "the crony of Van Buren"; Roger B. ("Dred Scott") Taney, "the spearhead of radicalism in the new cabinet" ("a tall sharp-faced man, with irregular yellow teeth, generally clamped on a long black cigar, he made a bad first impression," but his reasoning and his conviction won him friends). There was Amos Kendall, the Harry Hopkins of the age ("his chronic bad health may have created a special bond with the President, and Jackson soon began to rely on Kendall for aid in writing his messages. . . . Gradually, Kendall's supreme skill in interpreting, verbalizing...
...worriers, a man who doesn't sleep well when things go bad. He slept fine after the first game. Solid Steve O'Neill, who does his worrying on the ball field and leaves it there, just waddled home to the Detroit-Leland Hotel and settled silently behind cigar smoke to read the horrible headlines. Sample (from the Detroit Free Press): "Tigers Wail...