Word: chesterfielded
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...needs revamping. It is an expertise that they first developed while working together on the old Arthur Godfrey TV show-Bresler as conductor, Duddy as director of the chorus. In the years since, they have collaborated on recordings, several Jackie Gleason specials, a gross of TV commercials (Ford, Esso, Chesterfield) and are currently working on a musical. But they have never lost their love for nightclubs, especially since they command up to $20,000 for an act. The important thing, as Duddy says, is "being inspired by the personality we work for. Not all people will twig you-excite...
...nicotine." So anxious was Lorillard to get True onto the cigarette stands that it did not even bother to test-market the blue and white pack. Whether True will set off another competitive battle in the industry remains to be seen. Liggett & Myers is test-marketing a new Chesterfield menthol. American Tobacco is trying out "Mayo's Spearmint Blend,"* and Philip Morris is about to market a menthol Marlboro in a green package. These, however, so far have been heralded for their coolness rather than their healthful components...
...which a man married at 30 and continued his learning, was first appointed to office at 40, promoted, if successful, at 50, and retired at 70. Disraeli might proclaim that "almost everything that is great has been done by youth." But the vast majority agreed instead with Lord Chesterfield, who remarked, "Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough...
...custom made three-piece herringbone suit, in the custom-made white on white silk shirt with little diamonds, in the silk foulard and tie or side buckle shoes. Even less so when dressed for the street, another silk foulard peeping jauntily out of the breast pocket of his Chesterfield, his neck encased in a giant paisley muffler (silk!), and the unruly yellow thatch hidden behind a slouch hat imported from far-away France...
...secret secularism of our times." The drama as told by them ranges through the bustling courts and cafés of some half a dozen nations, is crowded with a cast of hundreds, from Voltaire's royal on-and-off admirer, Frederick the Great of Prussia, to Lord Chesterfield, writing elegant letters on morals to his bastard...