Word: cigaret
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...business" side, where the executive sits, there are (among other wonders): a radio, fluorescent lights, a Teletalk intercommunication unit (known commonly as a "squawk-box"), an electronic dictating machine, an electric razor with door mirror, an electric cigaret light' er, a telephone mounted on a pull-out slide with an automatic index, an extra electrical outlet convenient for fan, heater, Silex or therapeutic lamp...
...special convention of the diocese last week, the 1,000-odd clerical and lay delegates reached an obvious compromise. As new Bishop of New York they elected tall, cigaret-smoking Rt. Rev. Charles Kendall Gilbert, suffragan* bishop under Bishop Manning for the past 16 years. Bishop Gilbert knows his big, heterogeneous flock inside out, has maintained an average of 2,200 confirmations a year since becoming suffragan bishop. His chief drawback as a candidate was, paradoxically, a major factor in getting him elected. Bishop Gilbert is 68-which gives him only 3½ years in office before compulsory retirement...
...desk and looks into the camera while explaining that he is Detective Marlowe. Thereafter, he moves (taking the audience with him) behind the camera. Kis voice takes part in the dialogue and his hand appears in the foreground occasionally to open a door or pick up a cigaret. There are also glimpses of him in mirrors. But he and the camera (and the ticket buyer) are assumed to be one. The villains aim their fists straight at the audience and the heroine fondly kisses the lens...
Last August, to curb blatant cigaret trading, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, then Deputy Military Governor, opened a legal barter center in Berlin's swank Dahlem district. Through one door, Americans swarmed with their cartons. Through another, Berliners brought their bric-a-brac, silver, china, cameras, radios, furs; the cigarets the Germans got in exchange bought food and clothing on Berlin's black market...
Fortnight ago Clay, heeding an investigating committee's advice that he was "encouraging the development of a secondary currency which threatens to become a primary currency," ordered an end to cigaret trading at the barter center by mid-January. Last week G.I.s and Berliners scurried to make their last legal trades before the deadline. But Clay had left one loophole; he had considered it impractical to ban importation of cigarets by mail. While that source remained open, cigarets would continue to be Germany's currency...