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...TIME, July 7, "A Laboratory Flies": I am surprised that the U.S. Army would permit a picture to be taken of a test pilot with a cigar in his mouth. What's the answer...
with human nature, accept the situation. Many military planes have ash trays in them. But as for crack Test Pilot Stanley Umstead, if Reader Epstein had scrutinized his picture closely (see cut], she might have seen that his cigar has no ash on it. Umstead smokes a good deal, but often sticks an unlighted cigar in his mouth and simply gnaws...
...down the big, dark-paneled office, his wide feet sinking heavily in the taupe broadloom carpet. John Llewellyn Lewis is thinking. Now his pale thick hands are clasped behind him; now they jam in great fists in his coat pockets. Deep in his heavy chops he grips a cigar the size of an auto's gearshift, and like a gearshift the cigar slides slickly from point to point along the wide mouth. A mountain in a white suit, rumpled, tired, his whitening bale of hair shaking as he walks, the 61-year-old labor leader strolls and ponders...
...must be broken; the English Tories brought to book. He is not so sure that they will be, as he is that history will bring Franklin Roosevelt to book. Such were the thoughts last week of this big man who walks up & down his spacious office, gnawing his great cigar, storing up the Biblically powerful invective of which he is a master, and biding his time...
...short, India, where the pre-war average male wage was less than $30 a year, is enjoying a war boom, and the sight of an untouchable smoking a big cigar and wearing a silk shirt is perhaps no dream of the far future...