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...pipe-smoking Earl of Halifax has overrated Cigar Consumer Winston Churchill [TIME, May 21]. Winnie may be the British Empire's No. 1 cigar smoker, but he cannot smoke 54 extra-large, especially made cigars in 18 hours out of every 24. It takes most cigar smokers approximately 30 minutes to smoke enjoyably a normal-sized, popular-brand cigar...
Known officially as Fido (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation), the system that kept 15 British fields active during last winter's bitterest fighting consists of an installation of horizontal pipes laid parallel to each side of a landing strip. Gasoline is forced through and out of the perforated pipes with tremendous force. When ignited (by men running alongside the pipes with torches), a wall of flame roars from the jets with the noise and smoke of a forest fire. The intense heat first vaporizes the fuel in the upper (feeder) pipe, causing the smoke to subside, then burns...
Soft Peace. In Chicago, Ignatz Chabich admitted that he had been arguing with one John Borman about the Russian-Polish situation, but argued against charges of assault: "I hit him with the soft end of an iron pipe." Old Hand. In Newnan, Ga., the Beavers Packing Co. advertised for an experienced pork cutter and killing-floor foreman, promptly got a reply from a Mr. Goebels of Berlin (Georgia...
Winston Churchill was rated the British Empire's No.1 cigar consumer (three an hour for 18 hours out of every 24). Said the rater, the pipe-smoking Earl of Halifax, Ambassador to the U.S.: "What he doesn't smoke, he eats...
...gaudy, rustic-looking eccentric, Ray Sprigle has been wearing a ten-gallon sombrero for 15 years, ever since he went to Arizona to solve a Pittsburgh murder. The ten-gallon hat, a silver-ringed cane, and a fuming corncob pipe are the trademarks of the Post-Gazette's 58-year-old star reporter. To disguise himself for his latest assignment-to expose Pittsburgh's lively black market in meat-he gave up hat and cane, but not his pipe...