Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abandon of The Other Young Man--A Class Day Romance or the stern moral of The Knobby Sophomore. There are witty tours de force, such as The Episode, (It was the plump conductor,/On the Friday-night last car,/Who told the tale I now rehearse,/When proffered a cigar.) For more substantial fare, the reader might prefer A Yarn, which contains such stanzas as the following: For six long weeks we drifted on, we had nor food nor water; /We ate the cook, we ate the mate, we ate the captain's daughter./The sails grew mould overhead...
...final night's telecast, Castro himself, decked out in beret, cigar and low-slung .45, strode onstage for the finale. As the chorus of "to the wall" reached a crescendo, he harangued the prisoners for 3½ hours, crying "If the people of Cuba want a Communist regime, who has the right to deny it to them?" Then he grandly announced that he would "try to persuade" the government to spare their lives-all except those identified with Batista. The prisoners, by now dizzy from denunciation, clapped and cheered...
...break ground for a 28-story, 1,056-unit cooperative apartment building. In Hong Kong, the foundation for a new 166-room hotel is being laid. In Manila, Tokyo and Bangkok a network of agents are investigating new business opportunities. Masterminding this transpacific wheeling and dealing is stocky, cigar-chomping Chinn Ho, 57, the prototype of Hawaii's newest business phenomenon: the self-made, fast-moving Hawaiian millionaire of Oriental descent...
...novel's liveliest scenes take place in the office of "the literary dictator of America," cigar-chomping Harry P. Brandt, editor of the American World. In an early scene Brandt speaks to the music critic, Paul Jennings (patterned on George Jean Nathan), "a gourmet and a snob" who wears monogrammed shorts...
With the resigned air of a man who has no defense but his cigar, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger puffed into Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel last week and faced a panel of critics from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Subject for discussion: President Kennedy's press conference...