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...Santa Claus suit, stuffed 220 packages of cigarets into a pillowcase. Then, chewing his store's last stick of gum, he strolled the streets of Armonk, distributing packs of cigarets to astonished passersby. But back in his drugstore, he slapped his own pockets in alarm. Morosely he reached into a candy jar, ate a peppermint. He had forgotten to save a smoke for himself...
Loud talker Gum beater...
...they found Sir Eric. He was dead, "crouched as though he had been watching someone." A .30-caliber bullet from a U.S. Army carbine had pierced his left cheek, entered his body. Fifty yards away British police and U.S. Army MPs found ten empty cartridges, two wads of chewing gum. The rest was easy: the investigation moved to a U.S. Army airdrome near...
...this very friendliness that has taken Ed Stettinius so far so fast. He calls people by their first names, which he always remembers. He chews gum, smokes cigarets, smiles often. He has an almost pastorlike skill at presiding over meetings. He has a knack of getting people to agree. He leans back, crosses his legs, talks in formally. A caller at his office is greeted like a long-lost brother; Ed sits down facing him, slapping his big hands down on both knees, leaning forward, all interest. He has presence. He is tall, handsome and prematurely white-haired. The color...
...basis of that rather dubious claim to fame, some 20 impressionable newspapers buy her syndicated wares which are presented in a rather fluffy column to attract what we once called the gum-chewing trade...