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...press commented, but with caution. Between the lines the editorial writer almost took visible shape-a middle-aged man with a green eyeshade and cigar, making soothing motions and muttering, "Ladies! Ladies...
Captain Joseph ("Joe") Gould, 48, cigar-mangling peacetime prizefight manager, whose most famed charge was ex-Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock, went down for the count before an Army general court-martial. He was found guilty, as an Army contract officer, of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of $200,000 on Army contracts, sentenced to three years at hard labor, a $12,000 fine and dismissal from the service. Said one of his associates along "Jacob's Beach," hoary Manhattan rendezvous for the pugilistic trade: "He never should of done it during...
Died. Frank Marshall, 67, U.S. chess champion from 1909 to 1936 (he tried only once for the world's championship); of a heart attack; in Jersey City. Tightlipped, cigar-chewing Marshall played at least one game a day for 57 years, took a chessboard to bed to accommodate nighttime inspiration...
Based on B-29 design, the Stratocruiser's two-decked, double fuselage, looking in cross section like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge...
...cigar smokers last week got good news: OPA ordered manufacturers to start making "five-cent" cigars-something the consumer had not seen since last summer. There was the usual slight hitch: the 5? cigar will cost the smoker 7½?. But the 90% of U.S. cigar smokers who ordinarily smoke nickel cigars, have been paying from 10? to 25? for brands they never heard...