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...eight months, Mendès worked in the underground, adopting a pipe and a mustache as a disguise, then made his way to London to join De Gaulle's Free French. He immediately applied to fly again, was trained as a navigator in the Free French bomber group. "He turned all colors before going on missions, but he always went and he volunteered when he could," says a friend. Mendès fretted about bombing France, finally concluded that if he did not do it, others would, and perhaps not aim so carefully...
...Emery M. Lewis, 57, moved up to president of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., fourth largest U.S. tobacco company (Viceroys. Kools, Raleighs. Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco). The son of old Vaudevillian Walter Russell Lewis, Ohio-born Emery Lewis managed to get through grammar school before he quit to work in a paper mill. At 20 he started keeping books for American Tobacco Co., joined Brown & Williamson in 1927 as a comptroller, quickly moved up, in 1941 became vice president for sales. Lewis takes over from Timothy V. Hartnett, 63, who was named the first full-time chairman of the Tobacco...
...were the statisticians' findings that even the most moderate cigarette smokers (half a pack or less a day) also showed significantly higher death rates from both heart disease and cancer than nonsmokers, and that the increase includes all types of cancer, not only in the lung. Cigar and pipe smokers show no consistent increase in mortality. There is less chain-smoking of cigarettes in rural than urban areas, and the rural death rates from heart disease and cancer are lower...
...needed," protested a spokesman for the cigarette industry. But many lay men and women were quickly convinced. After the statistics hit Page One across the nation last week, common stocks of the big five cigarette manufacturers dropped as much as 4 points, preferred stocks even more, and buyers invaded pipe shops to buy experimental briars and fancy smoking mixtures. In Manhattan, Dunhill's expensive smoking emporium on Fifth Avenue reported that its stock of slim little ladies' pipes, enough to last several months at the old sales rate, was cleaned out in a couple of days...
This sort of platform has disadvantages: it must be big enough (up to 200 feet long) to support all the massive gear of a drilling outfit as well as quarters for the crew and storage space for fuel, water, pipe and other supplies. Its size makes it expensive, and its salvage value, if it has to be moved, is very...