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...Long Island home with swimming pool and three servants; a duplex Manhattan penthouse office suite that boasts a rehearsal hall and a Rouault; seven years of psychoanalysis, and such possessions as 50 broad-shouldered suits, a $4,000 diamond-and-star-sapphire ring and a solid gold lighter for his long, fat cigars. The last time he was on somebody else's payroll (in 1954 when he split with Imogene Coca and Producer Max [Your Show of Shows] Liebman) he earned $25,000 a week. Since then, as his own producer with a payroll of 60-odd employees...
...Chief reason: they use a low-grade, high-nicotine, heavy-bodied tobacco to get the taste through to the smoker. This darker, heavier leaf wholesales for only 42? a Ib. (up from 25? before the big switch to filters), but far less than the 62? a Ib. for the lighter tobacco that goes into regulars. Because of the tobacco difference, the filtered smoke usually carries more nicotine than the average regular, and just about the same amount of tar. Tobacco geneticists recently developed an exceptionally light, low-nicotine leaf that would have once been hailed as the tobaccoman...
...moved unobtrusively about the fringes of the chaos of the U.S.'s first moves into missilery. As early as 1950 he was one of the very few-and very unpopular-airmen who did not like the Air Force's cherished B-52. Schriever argued obstinately for a lighter, faster bomber that could fire air-to-ground missiles...
...Behra kept rolling in fine style. When the fireworks were touched off at 10 p.m. to signal the end of the race, the exquisitely tooled Maserati was winner by two laps. In twelve hours of relatively easy driving, the winner had covered a record 1,024.4 miles. Second: a lighter (2.9 liters) Maserati driven by England's Stirling Moss and American Expatriate Harry Schell. The D-Jag was third. Index of Performance prize for the car that exceeds theoretical standards by the largest amount went to a perky, eighth-place, 1.5-liter Porsche Spyder...
Cargo Manifest. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., cops rousted 6 ft. 6 in., 235 lb. Dempse McCormick out of an ice cream parlor where they found him sleeping, booked him for vagrancy after they emptied his pockets, discovered two billfolds, 30 cigarette lighters, a tobacco pouch, two flashlights, three toothbrushes, a tube of toothpaste, four bottles and two cans of lighter fluid, four spools of thread, one bottle of garlic salt, two tie clasps, three corks, nine pocket knives, two screwdrivers, a pair of pliers, two spools of fishing line, 15 assorted fishhooks, twelve defunct .38 cal. bullets...