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...human side of some very dissimilar papas was laid bare in a book titled The Father: Letters to Sons and Daughters, edited by Evan Jones and published last week (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $3.95)In 1950, not long after his young daughter Isabel had gone to Paris and succumbed to "the romantic alchemy" of a much older, married man, Humorist Ogden Nash wrote a prescription: "Keep on having your gay time, but just keep yourself in hand, and remember that generally speaking it's better to call older men Mister." In 1930, India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru was serving...
...into the 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...
...Emma, Brenda, Belle." Gray sometimes tours the retailers himself (often in one of the company's three private planes), but most of his time is spent in Winston-Salem. There, he is out of bed daily at 6 a.m. sharp in the first-floor bedroom of his modified Georgian home on his 800-acre Brookberry Farm, where he lives with his wife and family (five sons, ranging from 9 to 22). He eats breakfast alone at 7:20 because "I made a deal with my wife when we were first married...
...company got its start in 1874, when a brash youth named Richard Joshua Reynolds, wearing a tobacco-stained mustache that belied his 21 years, took his profits from a family tobacco business, set up his own business at Winston to sell chewing tobacco among the back-country folk. He did so well that by 1888 he was worth more than a quarter million dollars...
...Camels in 1913 in a package decorated with a very sick-looking animal. Recalls former Director R. C. Haberkern: "He was atrocious. He had pointed ears, his head was bad, his feet looked like sweet potatoes." The problem was not solved until the Barnum & Bailey circus came to Winston-Salem, and the Camel people got a look at their first dromedary, Old Joe. Old Joe was promptly photographed, drawn for the package. (When Reynolds tried to change the package slightly in 1958, it got so many complaints that it had to switch back to the old one.) Camels, with their...