Word: cigars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nominated last week as the next Air Force Chief of Staff, after years of public and Pentagon wondering if he would ever make the grade: General Curtis Emerson LeMay, 54, a bulky (5 ft. 10½ in., 185 lbs.), cigar-smoking Ohio State graduate* whose brusque personality and bluntly voiced military philosophy have often stirred more public notice than have his real and remarkable abilities...
...belt, and that seemed like enough. But at Field's request he agreed to stay-at least until the News completed the move to Field's new Sun-Times building on the Chicago River. This week, the shift successfully completed, Stuffy Walters lit up a fat cigar, said goodbye all around, and headed for his pig farm in Frankfort, Ind. Said Marshall Field fondly: "He is one of the really great editors of our time...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.) wins the week's cigar for clever titling with "Will the Real Martian Please Stand...
...Platform. A two-mile-long, cigar-shaped strip in the East River, north of the U.N., between Long Island and Manhattan, Welfare Island was once a penitentiary, now is occupied by nurses' homes, hospitals for the aged and poor, and homes for wayward girls. Apart from the institutions, the island is a ramshackle glob of decrepit buildings, weeds and trash. The plan, sponsored by wealthy Real Estate Operator Roger L. Stevens and Financier Frederick Richmond, is to tear down everything on the island except one hospital and to build a concrete platform, 22 feet high, over most...
...Huck, Davey has a Negro pal, name of Commercial Appeal. Unfortunately. Commercial Appeal is killed in an early burst of Ku Klux Klan violence in Kentucky in the 1880s and cannot sail down the Mississippi with Davey. But down the Mississippi Davey does go, with his Uncle Jim, a cigar-smoking Civil War veteran and college man learned in the classic lore of "a number of deceased nuisances like Horace and Socrates and Pluto." Other passengers: Zeb, an old family detainer fond of saying "howsom-ever''; Dr. Ewing T. Snodgrass, an engaging purveyor of something called Distilled Essence...