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...came hurrying up to the train. It was ex-Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner, the copilot whom Franklin Roosevelt had dropped in 1940. John Garner, now 75, was wearing a worn work shirt, buttoned at the throat, a pair of dingy pants. There was an outrageous twisted rope of cigar between his teeth and a faded ten-gallon hat pushed back on his white hair. His old friend from the U.S. Senate stepped down, rushed forward, hand outstretched. Old Jack Garner clapped him on the back, beaming: "I'm glad to see you, Harry, bless your old soul...
...cognac in sherry glasses. Sibelius asked for a large glass so his shaking hands wouldn't spill the cognac. The glass never came. He said he had one bottle of whiskey left, but was saving it. He had great difficulty lighting the stump of a Finnish Balkan tobacco cigar...
...Allied soldiers invading Sicily in July 1943 carried paper money that resembled cigar coupons. On one side was printed "Allied Military Currency," on the other the Four Freedoms (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943). Washington, for the next 15 months, did not even hint who would redeem the $350,000,000 worth of invasion money (pegged rate: 100 lire to a dollar) which the U.S. and Britain subsequently issued in Italy. Said Treasury Secretary Morgenthau cryptically : redemption was a matter for the peace table...
...Huge Government purchases of cigars-especially the 3? to 12? brands-will this year leave cigar smokers with half the cigars they bought in 1942. What is left to buy are mostly expensive imported cigars, which most smokers have never heard of and which they do not like...
...almost forgotten Al Smith the politician, remembered him as a symbol of a wonderful era-the years of the never-ending bull market, of the hip flask, of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Dempsey fights. Al Smith's hoarse and genial East Side voice, his chewed cigar, his violent pajamas and his rasping expletive, "Baloney!" belonged to the fabulous '20s as much as It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'. He was against the Volstead Act; and in the '20s the U.S. almost elected him its President...