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This month some 9,000,000 Reader's Digest families got the answer - a five-page debunking not only of the Old Gold blurb, but of all the other big cigaret advertisers as well. The Digest had waited until the Federal Trade Commission issued complaints against the manufacturers of Lucky Strike, Camel, Old Gold and Philip Morris cigarets. The Commission made these complaints...
...still alive somewhere in the Deep South. Once Bunk was found at his old home in New Iberia, La., he became a voluble correspondent. He slowly pecked out his careful letters on an old typewriter. Says he: "You can sit down with a cup of coffee and a cigaret and be sure you won't go to sleep because that little bell keeps waking you up." Bunk kept insisting in his letters that if he had a trumpet and a good set of teeth he could play "as good as ever." Russell took up a collection and bought Bunk...
...somebody slip Mr. C. Bedall Monro, Pennsylvania-Central Airline president, a marijuana cigaret...
...smokes most? Last week the Federation of Tax Examiners, studying records of the 17 states which levy cigaret taxes, discovered that cigarets sell best in Connecticut (per capita consumption: 98.8 packs a year), Massachusetts (97.8), Rhode Island (91.5), New York (91.3). Other state averages: Washington 85.5, Maine 83.4, Illinois 77.2, Ohio 75.8, Wisconsin 60.8, Texas 55, Utah 50.4, Kansas 48.8, Kentucky 41.8, South Dakota 41.7, Oklahoma 35.9, Arkansas...
With the technical advice of three grownups, J.A. members rotate the dull jobs and the executive ones, decide the relative merits of expansion v. current dividends, ponder how to stay solvent (they rarely go broke). In peacetime they concentrated on gadgets-cigaret boxes, desk sets, junk jewelry, garden furniture. War hit them with just about all the troubles that plague their elders, except contract renegotiation and absenteeism (which is rare, since the six to twelve hours of weekly work is fun at wages that run up to 35? an hour...