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...said that it was also studying the ads of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike), its subsidiary American Cigarette, & Cigar Co. (Pall Mall), and Philip Morris & Co., and might bring cease & desist orders against them. FTC investigators have found, for example, that despite claims of being "easier on the throat," king-size cigarettes (such as Pall Mall) actually contain "more tobacco and therefore more harmful substances" than are found in an ordinary cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Smoke Screen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...Studiously ignoring the murmurs of the fans which his arrival generally creates, Ted uncoils from behind the wheel and strides head down into the lobby. In natty slacks and sport shirt, but without a hat or tie,* he may pause a moment to chat with the girl behind the cigar counter and to pick up a copy of Sports Afield or else his new favorite paper, the Wall Street Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Competitive Instinct | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...choice of 18th Century Novelist Fanny Burney as the subject for a biography. Miss Burney kept a journal which frequently tells how the turn of the talk had forced her to dart from a room with blushing cheeks. She would have run like a deer from her cigar-smoking biographer, who, in China to Me, documented her position as one of the most uninhibited girls on the China Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Live & Learn Nothing | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

After upending Yale Saturday night, the varsity basketball team will have another chance for an upset when it meets Columbia, the team which ended Holy Cross's 26-game winning streak, tonight in the Lions' cigar-box shaped Morningside...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Five Will Meet Columbia Tonight; Princeton Beats Hockey Team, 5-4 | 3/8/1950 | See Source »

...side room Churchill sat for a while listening to a portable radio and making notes with a ballpoint pen. He was glum until the Labor lead began to drop. Then he threw away a long-dead cigar, lighted a fresh one. "Now it's really getting exciting," said Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can't Run Away | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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