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...pearl diving," and it upset and scared him. "Actors have to observe," he once said, "and I enjoy that part of it. They have to know how much spit you have in your mouth and where the weight of your elbows is. I could sit all day in the Optimo Cigar Store on Broadway [which he often did] and just watch the people...
...also devastatingly adept at mimicry, something he does not only for laughs. "Actors have to observe," he says. "They have to know how much spit you've got in your mouth and where the weight of your elbows is. I could sit all day in the Optimo Cigar Store telephone booth and just watch the people pass...
...Philadelphia Record . . ." It was in February 1947, during a Newspaper Guild strike, that Publisher J. David Stern abruptly sold his Record, two Camden (N.J.) newspapers and a radio station for $12 million to the rival Philadelphia Bulletin. Pot-bellied Publisher Stern retired to a Manhattan penthouse to chain-smoke Optimo Dunbar cigars and dictate his memoirs. But son David III ("Tommy"), now 39, itched to get back in the business, ranged far & wide seeking a good buy. He found it in New Orleans. For $2,000,000, which his father helped him pay, Tommy last week bought the New Orleans...
...Sons & Co. spent two years persuading the Le Grand family that it could do a better job by aging the two together. Last week Julius Wile got the first shipment, bottled in the ancient bottle devised by the monks and bearing the traditional Benedictine symbol-D.O.M. (for Deo Optimo Maximo, "To God most good most great...
...factories instead. Today by reason of its proximity to the source of tobacco supply in Cuba, Florida manufactures about 10% of all cigars smoked in the U. S. Tampa boasts 146 factories producing $20,000,000 worth of cigars, including such well-known brands as Admiration, Perfecto Garcia, Bering, Optimo, Garcia y Vega. But the biggest cigar manufacturing centre is Pennsylvania which profited most from swift dramatic events in the cigar industry of the last decade...