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John H. Swisher & Son, Inc., big Jacksonville, Fla. cigar manufacturer, recently took a good look at the well-equipped machine shop, part of their highly mechanized plant, and their complacency exploded. Previously, they had thought they were doing pretty well by chipping in thousands of dollars in tobacco taxes, and buying defense bonds to fight...
...21st time since he won it from Jim Braddock in 1937, the incomparable Joe Louis successfully defended his title by knocking out vast (255¼ lb.) Abe Simon, who looks like a worried cigar-store Indian, in 0:16 of the sixth round last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Simon and his manager, James Joy Johnston, the aging Boy Bandit, screamed that the count was short; 18,220 fans screamed with delight. Joe turned his purse, estimated at $45,000, over to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. Promoter Mike Jacobs rewarded him with a dozen eating apples...
...Cigar-puffing, Bronx-born Milt Gross is mainly famous as the cartoonist who created the comic-strip sagas Dave's Delicatessen, That's My Pop! and Count Screwloose of Tooloose. But in his restless career among the fine and lively arts, Cartoonist Gross has also taken several whacks at writing (Nize Baby, Famous Fimmales from Heestory, etc.) and at serious landscape art. Last week Hollywood's Frank Perls Gallery was exhibiting the results of Cartoonist Gross's latest venture into fine art: 30 drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross...
...There would have been many more dead at Pearl Harbor had it not been for a newly invented cigar-shaped device which...
Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, cigar in hand, rode the rear seat of a tandem at the head of a bicycle cavalcade through Atlanta to popularize pedaling, declared at the finish that cycling not only saved gas and rubber but beautified the complexion...