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...military uniform's predominant place in College dress becomes more evident, looking at the Service News' advertisements. Ads for Chesterfield cigarettes and Harvard knick-knacks from the Coop were replaced by models selling military clothing...

Author: By Judith E. Dutton, | Title: Extra! Extra! Harvard Service News Replaces The Crimson | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

Many articulate opinions were still being expressed in favor of the war effort. Gerald R. Thompson of Chesterfield, Mo., wrote in a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The crisis in the gulf is driven by economic realities, not just political ideals. Black gold, or Texas tea, is worth shedding American lives for because oil is the blood that flows through the veins of the American economy. Without economic freedom, our political freedom is in serious trouble. The two go hand in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Long Hallucination of War | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...Cipollone family and other would-be plaintiffs may find some encouragement in the latest decision. The lower-court ruling was rather narrow, declaring that the Liggett Group, which made the Chesterfield and L&M cigarettes Cipollone favored, violated a so-called express warranty that its products are safe. But the appeals court opened the way to a new trial on the broader question of whether the tobacco company was negligent in marketing cigarettes when it knew of medical evidence suggesting that smoking is hazardous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITIGATION: Stubbed, but Not Out | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...fresh pack of smokes delivered. She ignored her husband and children when they started urging her to quit in the early 1950s, waving them away when they showed her magazine articles with headlines like CANCER BY THE CARTON. She did make the concession of switching in 1955 from Chesterfield straights to L&M filters, which were advertised at the time as "just what the doctor ordered." But Cipollone kept on smoking even after developing a malignant tumor that forced surgeons to remove part of her right lung in 1981. She continued sneaking puffs after the entire lung was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco's First Loss | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...liability claim, which she made him promise to pursue after her death, though no one had ever won such a case against a cigarette maker. Last week the five-year-old lawsuit made history when a six-member federal jury in Newark ordered the Liggett Group, maker of the Chesterfield and L&M brands, to pay Tony Cipollone $400,000 in compensatory damages for its contribution to his wife's death. Of more than 300 lawsuits filed against tobacco companies since 1954, this case was the first in which the defendant was held at least partly liable or ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco's First Loss | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

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