Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doesn't suffice to get a beard off a chin or a world-saver off a soap box, the University is usually on hand with tutors, advisers, section men, and analysts. But even with the help of friends and elders, some of us will, like the grey haired men, smoke our cigarettes until they scorch our fingertips...
Personality & Philosophy. Sincere and single-minded about his political future, Bill Proxmire does not smoke or drink, teaches Sunday school (Episcopal) and wallows in the Congressional Record. In 1955 he was divorced, after nine years of marriage, two children, from Elsie Rockefeller, great-granddaughter of old John D.'s brother William (she later married a man who helped out on Bill's 1954 campaign). Last December he married Mrs. Ellen Sawall. 32, a pert, Virginia-born Phi Beta Kappa (University of Richmond) with two children, whom he met while she was financial secretary of the state Democratic Party...
...unimportant. He still lives in a nondescript northwest neighborhood in Detroit, in a plain brick house that he bought in 1939 for $6,800. A man of simple tastes, he always wears white socks because colored ones "make my feet sweat." Says Harold Gibbons: "Remember, Jimmy doesn't smoke, drink or chase women." As a matter of fact, he doesn't even drink coffee...
...figured out that two packs a day would come to something like 30? a day, about $75 a year, so he gave me $300 if I wouldn't smoke until after I left West Point. I never have since...
...extract tobacco tar from cigarettes for their cancer-tracking experiments on mice, doctors use strange contraptions that smoke cigarettes incessantly. Latest and biggest such smoking robot was installed last week in Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Puffing 600 cigarettes every ten minutes-100 cartons a day-the machine's rotating drum takes ten drags, ejects the butts and begins smoking new ones blown into place by compressed air. The smoke inhaled by the machine is broken down in refrigerated condensers to produce...