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...just like you always imagined him. It didn't surprise me at all that when someone pointed him out recently he was short and wearing a rumpled, off-green sports jacket, journalist-gray pants and one of those knit ties cut straight across at the bottom. Chomping on a cigar--unlit, naturally--he was riding the down escalator into a hotel lobby, jabbering at a bunch of other Washington newspapermen. Then came an opportunity for a joke...
...life and attack racial discrimination, collecting his writings in the bestsellers Only in America (1958), For 2? Plain (1959) and Enjoy, Enjoy! (1960); of a heart attack; in Charlotte, N.C. A Jewish immigrant's son who was reared on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the portly, cigar-chomping Golden gravitated to the South and in 1941 founded the Israelite, which in its 26 years of publication numbered Harry Truman, Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson and Carl Sandburg among its readers. A typical satirical proposal: the Golden Vertical Negro Plan to install stand-up desks in public schools because Southerners...
Jordan said that one of the firm's partners, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss, had invited him to join the Washington office. By tireless travel and nonstop fund raising in corporate and government offices, the cigar-chomping Jordan has managed to double the Urban League's staff (now 4,200) and quadruple its budget (now $150 million, most of it for job training programs). Said he: "I've always seen this as a ten-year job. It's time for a change, personally and institutionally." Jordan insisted he has fully recovered from injuries sustained...
...other manufacturers. Levi Strauss capitalized on the success of its blue jeans by selling the right to use the Levi's name on boots, shoes and special models of American Motors' Jeeps. The familiar Playboy trademark appears annually on $120 million worth of products worldwide, including gold cigar boxes in Tokyo and men's toiletries in London...
...Dugway, reporters outfitted with gas masks awaited the transports. An official coolly advised them: "If the plane should crash on landing, head for the bus." At 7:46 the first Starlifter landed, followed 54 minutes later by the second one. A crew member lit up a cigar in celebration. Said Public Affairs Officer Colonel Richard Horvath, who arrived on the first flight: "We had a good time up there." But with the flights stretching into next week, many Utah residents were not lighting up quite...