Cigar Weekly

25 YEARS AGO:

The Globe and Mail reported that Guatemalan President General Efrain Rios Montt was ousted by military commanders seeking an end to "religious fanaticism" in their country. Vacationing Toronto Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey apologized to New York Yankee Dave Winfield at Yankee Stadium in New York for the "way he was treated" in Toronto. The superstar outfielder had been charged with cruelty to animals after a warm-up toss killed a gull between innings of an American League game at Exhibition Stadium. The next day, the charge was dropped.

50 YEARS AGO:

The Globe and Mail reported that history's first undersea voyage across the top of the world, a distance of 1,830 miles under the polar ice cap, was disclosed at the White House. The crossing of the atomic-powered USS Nautilus in four days under the Arctic Ocean pioneered a new and shorter route to Europe from the Pacific Ocean and demonstrated the feasibility of its use by cargo submarines. Liberal leader Lester Pearson, quoting what he said was an official U.S. source, claimed that the United States was producing enough fissionable material to make 30,000 to 40,000 atomic bombs every year.

100 YEARS AGO:

The Globe reported that it was rumoured that the three warships being built in England, ostensibly for Brazil, would fly the German flag. At the Free Trade Congress, in London, the right of Canada to do as it pleased in respect to its commercial relations with the mother country and foreign nations was urged with considerable emphasis by Alexander McFee of Montreal. A Methodist minister was summoned to appear in the police court in Brockville, Ont., to answer to two charges - one of using offensive language and the other of willfully destroying property.

At a lawn social, the reverend gentleman took exception to the sale of cigars, and, seizing two boxes, tossed them to the ground and trampled them.