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When Author Partridge was born, Father, an efficient man, put a sign on an open cigar box on his office desk: "It's a boy! Take one." Mother was also "an enthusiastic advocate" of big families. Author Partridge suspects that she had "some vague idea that by bringing children into the world she was helping to swell the armies of the Lord against the ... incursions of the Devil and the insidious infiltrations of Demon Rum." Author Partridge felt that older brothers were useful in a fight; younger ones made wonderful opportunities for teasing...
...Sophomore who took over the vacated chamber found, hidden under a pile of old corks and cigar bands, a small but potent metal filing box containing 74 cards. On each card was written a girl's name, her status (Wellesley, deb, Raymor, etc.), her telephone number and address, and her rating on an A to E scale...
Well, he's puffing a big cigar, feeling mighty slick...
...Leon Henderson got even more out of the reorganization, in some ways, than did his colleague Nelson. The bulgy, cigar-eating Price Boss became one of the Big Seven SPABoard-members to manage Civilian Supply. "The Great Jawbone" will have a voice with all other members in every problem of allocation and priorities; he remains Price boss, responsible only to the President, free to exercise his now-famed method of "jawbone control" of inflation...
...weekly, he has finished Lady Be Good, is now making another musical, Panama Hattie. Although his oldtime medicine-show manners (telling stories at the top of his voice, howling, gesturing violently) occasionally get him out of line, Edna tempers his healthy conceit. Seldom without an unlighted cigar in his mouth or hand, he neither smokes nor drinks. He makes a rule of never answering the telephone-afraid of making a deal that Edna wouldn't like...