Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among proper-Bostonian Lowells and Lodges, the Cabots are known for "customs, not manners," and there is no more bohemian Brahmin than Harvard's stocky, cigar-smoking treasurer, Paul Codman Cabot, 66. Fiercely energetic, shatteringly frank, he can curse like a barge captain, yet guide a big investment like the skipper of a liner. Last week, two months before his mandatory retirement, he achieved a lifetime goal by pushing the market value of Harvard's investments past $1 billion. No other university comes close to such an endowment...
...Hofheinz's own penthouse, high above the rightfield stands, the carpet, chairs, telephones, even the toilets, are all gold-colored. Last week, tamping his cigar ash in a gold ashtray, shaped like a fielder' glove, Hofheinz peered anxiously out of his picture windows, awaiting his big moment...
Chomping on a long black cigar in an amber holder, stubby, silver-haired Leander Perez, segregationist boss of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, gave the Senate Judiciary Committee the lowdown on what Negroes are really like. "They are of immoral character," drawled the Democratic politician. Their only interest is "to get welfare checks," he said. "They are a low type of citizenship...
...produced some pungent humor of his own-and added Lower Slobbovia to popular geography-in the hillbilly world of Li'I Abner: "The new comics are the real Black Humorists." In Walt Kelly's Pogo, a group of peculiarly human denizens of Okefinokee Swamp -a cigar-chewing alligator, a bespectacled owl, a turtle sporting a derby-play with words, con one another, and offer the only trenchant political satire to be found in the comics today. In Johnny Hart's B.C., indolent cavemen, sharpshooting anteaters and terrified ants make droll comments on the modern world. In Mell...
...Teheran, his off-guard glimpses of world leaders playing at the game of war: "The Prime Minister's valet came into my bedroom and said: 'The Prime Minister's compliments, and the German armies have invaded Russia.' Thereupon he presented me with a large cigar on a silver salver...