Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who smoke only cigars the rate goes up 22%, and for pipe smokers only 12%. Mixed smokers, e.g., pipe and cigarettes, have intermediate rates...
...Cliffe was about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The Edgeworth Tobacco Company, realizing that this attitude was indicative of national womanhood, kept cheering up Harvard men by telling them that, no matter what else the women had taken away, they could take away his pipe. "She'll never smoke a pipe," the company crowed in countless CRIMSON ads; that item is "one pet diversion our little friends keep their fingers...
...Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, who only two weeks before had blurted out that Ike's budget could stand a $2 billion cut without real damage, told the G.O.P. gathering in Trenton that he had not come there to "shovel smoke," urged them to bury factional differences and unite as "loyal Republicans." Said Adams: "It is inconceivable that loyal Republicanism can be twisted to mean persistent and carping opposition to our party's leader and our party platform. If this should be our course, our party is foredoomed at the polls...
...Garden without a ticket and, even stranger, being directed to a seat by a polite, quiet-voiced usher who seemed to know the difference between a shepherd and a sheepherder. Second was the clear air of the Garden's interior without its usual blue haze of cigarette smoke; hot-dog stands throughout the building were cigaretteless for the duration, and strips of cardboard covered the signs that normally announce "BEER" (a checkroom was converted to a Bible shop). Third surprise was the crowd itself: quiet, well-dressed, all ages-there was nothing to distinguish it from the audience...
Divorced. John Ireland, 42, actor of screen (All the King's Men), stage (Summer and Smoke) and TV; by Joanne Dru (real name: Joanne Letitia La Cock), 35, brunette cinemactress (Red River, Day of Triumph) ; after 7½ years of marriage, no children (she has three by her marriage to Crooner Dick Haymes); in Hollywood...