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...generations of Yale men have dropped their themes in a box outside Professor Berdan's foul-smelling office. The door is always open and Professor Berdan, smoking an overpowering Latakia tobacco in a meerschaum pipe loves to invite his students in, insist that they smoke a strong Cuban cigaret, talk to them for hours on end. He makes it a point to read every theme (200 a week) himself. In class he rips the themes to pieces, likes to make his students angry so that they will fight back. Once he asked his class for their opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Writers' Teacher | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...around the U. S. with a guitar. His specialty is Midwestern songs. The foot-tapping Golden Gate Quartet (TIME, Jan. 27), who went to Washington by taxi ($100 round trip), sang Noah and Things Are Gonna Come My Way. Negro Joshua White, who sings at rehearsals with a lighted cigaret behind his ear, sang John Henry, Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Folk Songs in the White House | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Seated at his desk, his cigaret holder jutting up at its usual 30° angle, the President gave his answer. Grinning a tired grin, he picked up his reorganization order, whisked through it swiftly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: Two Heads for One | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

Within the office of OPM would be at least three divisions-Production, headed by Glassman John David Biggers; Purchases, bossed by Sears, Roebuck's Donald Marr Nelson; Priorities, bossed by Steelman Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. The President paused, blew out a cloud of cigaret smoke. The questions popped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: Two Heads for One | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...began a German immigrant named Harry H. Straus opened what is now the U. S.'s No. 1 cigaret-paper mill in North Carolina with $2,000,000 put up by the big U. S. cigaret makers (TIME, April 8). Triumph of the mill was that it made cigaret paper from linseed-flax straw, hitherto a worthless byproduct. At present it is meeting a third of the Big Five cigaret makers' needs, will turn out sufficient paper for their entire output by the time reserve stocks are exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Blockade Benison | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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