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...wasn't long before the son realized he was maybe a little too loose, too deep fried, for his father's taste--but he liked that. W. performed the most disgraceful stunts, the ones that would have angered the grandparents the most, the cigar chewing, the strutting, and swearing and smoking cigarettes in the dining room of the Nonantum Hotel in Kennebunkport when he was 12. He'd round up the younger brothers and say, "O.K., you little wieners, line up," and he'd shoot them in the back with his air gun, and they would all flail and pretend...
...children. As a teenager he played for pennies in the parks of Honolulu, often teaming with Sol Hoopii, who was later Bennie's chief rival as a steel guitar star. By his early 20s, and now adept in guitar, mandolin, ukulele and one-string cigar-box fiddle, Nawahi was ready for the mainland--and vaudeville...
...doesn't give a damn what you think about how he gives his money away, because that's one of the prerogatives of being worth $9 billion: you can give it away however you want. "I'm very internationally focused," Turner says as he chews on a cigar in his Atlanta CNN Center office. "I think, you know, we're all living on this little planet here, and you know, the borders of countries are just lines on a piece of paper." Sure, he admits, the U.N. gets into a tangle now and then. "Like any organization that...
Bill Clinton and Al Gore's wild '96 money-grub showed that Democrats could raise money too. But now they're not the only Dems with fund-raising prowess: New numbers show House Democrat campaign coffers with an impressive - and totally unprecedented - cash-on-hand advantage over the cigar-chompers across the aisle, and it's George W. Bush who can take a lot of the credit...
...springy gait that said his whole world had changed simply because he had been reshod. They turned left and headed for Lampe Drugs, a family operation since 1940. Across the street at Faeth's, the third, fourth and fifth generations of the Faeth family catered to customers in a cigar shop where you can sip a cold Pabst for a buck, buy a box of shotgun shells, find out where the catfish are jumping, play a game of billiards or drop the kids off for a soda and know they're safer than if you'd tied them...