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Those who crowded up front saw a pudgy man with cheeks like apple dumplings, blue eyes beneath crooked restless eyebrows, the merest foam-flecking of sandy gray hair on his bald pink pate, a long black cigar clenched at a belligerent angle above his bulldog jaw. From the sleeves of his blue sack coat extended long cuffs, half hiding the small hands folded placidly across his middle...
Died. Charles A. Whelan, 78, co-founder (with his brother) in 1901 of United Cigar Stores Co. of America which he sold in 1929 along with the Whelan Drug chain (founded by two of his sons); in East Orange...
Ronald Glenn Callvert, 68, oldest of the three, has been on the Oregonian since 1909, was assistant and managing editor until he became editorial writer in 1931. Bushy-browed, kindly, he hunts & pecks his tax and fiscal editorials at furious speed on a portable typewriter while chewing an unlit cigar. (All editorialists, like Oregonian reporters, buy their own typewriters.) The story is that Editor Callvert in 1938 was about to be fired because he was too expensive. The idea was dropped when he won the Pulitzer Prize for best editorial of the year...
Smoker as well as botanist, Goodspeed hopes that his plant exploration may consummate the sublime vision of the late U.S. Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall: a good 5? cigar...
...engineered the party was WQXR's shrewd musical director, Eddy Brown. A chubby cigar-smoker with bright eyes, he has worked around to hot music slowly. Ten years ago he founded the Chamber Music Society, which first got chamber music on the air. Lately he has been doing a series of programs on American composers, and WQXR has broadcast "salon swing." For the serious plunge into jazz (tentative date: January) he plans a single program series in which he will use recordings of classic and modern jazz