Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Center of activity is Pinar del Rio, Cuba's westernmost province, where prosperous tobacco growers stand to lose their land to Castro's agrarian reform. The fighting arm is headed by a former Batista army corporal named Luis Lara. Last month Castro's troops captured 20 of Lara's men, including two U.S. aircraft pilots. But Lara remains at large...
...Bowman Gray, 52, was named chairman and chief executive of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels, Winston Salem), largest U.S. tobacco manufacturer (1958 sales: $1,146,559,000). He succeeds John Clarke Whitaker, 68, who was named to the newly created post of honorary chairman. Gray started as a salesman in 1930, became sales manager in 1952, executive vice president in 1955 and president in 1957. It was during Gray's presidency that Reynolds wrested the lead in U.S. tobacco sales from American Tobacco Co. Succeeding Gray as president is F. G. ("Bill") Carter, 47, former vice president...
...Francisco, Kremlin-approved Soviet Novelist Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov, 54, and Boston-disapproved U.S. Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell, 55, met for the first time since they were war correspondents in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Caldwell complained that he gets no royalties from his highly popular Russian editions. Sholokhov's rejoinder: he gets no money from the U.S. for his books either. Later, Author Sholokhov sounded off in Washington to some U.S. authors about Nobel Prize-declining Novelist Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak. "A hermit crab," sniffed Sholokhov. Pointing out that they had never...
...circles around their larger American opponents. The two-mile was originally planned as a three-mile test, but was shortened out of courtesy to the Americans. Even so, Benjamin, the best American two-miler, was 11 seconds behind Oxford's Gilligan. While the Americans religiously abstained from alcohol and tobacco before the big meet, the British, deception aside, showed no aversion to a few puffs or a small snort. Gilligan made a great show just before the start of the two-mile, parading up and down the track with a cigar clenched in his teeth...
...baseball player, but there was too much music around. "My dad ran the community store, an informal meeting place for farm hands on Saturday afternoons," Charlie recalls. "Some would bring their guitars, and there would be a lot of singin', playin' and spittin' tobacco juice. It was a real stompin' brand of music." Charlie's father taught his son the guitar, and at twelve Charlie was playing on a local radio show. World War II saw Charlie in Special Services, touring Europe as an Army showman. One day in Paris he met the legendary Belgian...