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...With this pipe I can lean over a typewriter and smoke won't get in my eyes." A pipe smoker of more regular habit, Correspondent Dudley Doust collected material on Bowman Gray and R. J. Reynolds during a 2½ week visit to Winston-Salem, N.C., was strafed so steadily with fresh cigarettes that he puffed down about a pack a day - "more than I've smoked since we made roll-your-owns out of cattails when I was a kid in Syracuse, New York." If the men who worked on TIME'S cover story are something...
Says he: "I do believe that if a cigarette appeals to me?I'm a pretty average fella ?it might appeal to the population." This week Gray, who smokes as many as four packs of Winstons a day (with an occasional Salem), was also puffing away at cigarettes from chalky white, unmarked testing packs. Through his mouth and into his windpipe he rolled the smoke with all the sober concentration of a winetaster. In the blank packs were cigarettes being tested as possible additions to half a dozen new brands that Reynolds already has on hand...
...biggest and, according to Wall Street, the best-managed company in the U.S. tobacco industry. But it has never lost its oldfashioned, small-town touch. It resisted the glamour of setting up offices in New York City, as most other cigarette companies did, stayed on in provincial Winston-Salem (pop. 118,000), where it employs one in every five workers, is the city's biggest booster and a major contributor to civic drives. From the company's red brick factories and its 22-story limestone office building, the tallest in North Carolina, the quick and pungent smell of tobacco drifts...
Reaching a Verdict. In Winston-Salem, N.C., a woman juror stalked out of the jury room, snatched her scarf and handbag, told Judge Robert Gambrill: "There was so much talking, fussing and carrying on that I've had all I want of it." Scratching the Surface. In Minneapolis, Municipal Judge Tom Bergin and Patrolman Robert Lyons collided in their cars on their way to a police school on traffic safety...
...Affairs Council. By no coincidence, he will arrive in Los Angeles as the Western States Republican Conference assembles, and he has left time on his schedule for friendly, probing chats. Next day he will head for San Francisco to address the Press and Union League Club, then on to Salem, Ore. on Nov. 14 for a speech at Willamette University. At trail's end will be Oregon's youthful (37) Governor Mark Hatfield-who dreams...