Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon the dealers of 57th Street began to besiege him. But Eilshemius, who had inherited a bit of money, had no sense of business. He let his canvases go for pennies to dealers who cleaned up. As his money dwindled, he began painting on bits of newspaper, wood from cigar boxes, even the manuscripts of the strange piano pieces he composed. Finally, in 1921, a full 20 years before his death, he simply gave up painting entirely...
...tapped the mass market for watches in much the same way as paperback publishers have for books. When jewelers spurned it because of its low 50% markup (100% for other watches), U.S. Time Sales Vice President Robert E. Mohr, 42, set up displays in drugstores, department stores and cigar stands, featuring a device that dunked a ticking watch into water and banged it with a hammer. The public really began to take notice when Mohr moved the torture test to television, shaking Timexes in automatic paint mixers, freezing them in blocks of ice, and tying them to plummeting high-divers...
Keating is in great demand at Washington parties, but he is no social lion, rarely drinks, and smokes only an occasional cigar. A physical fitness enthusiast, he swims a good deal, exercises on arising every morning, guzzles a mixture of apple cider vinegar and honey to ward off colds...
...combine peasant piety and a whore's toughness in a complex and graceful way. John Wolfson (Chief of Police) is a fairly limited actor, but his part doesn't require much more than the two or three inflections he uses to good effect. He might, however, practice twirling a cigar some more before tonight...
...cigar-chomping President Roy Abernethy, 56, who took over American Motors last February when George Romney stepped out to seek and win the Governorship of Michigan,* the big play in his company's stock seemed long overdue. Says Abernethy: "For the past three or four years, there have always been a number of doubting Thomases, but each year we've proved that we can play ball in the big leagues." There is no doubt that AMC is in the big league now. Its sales for the first ten days of January were 38% higher than a year...