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...thirties has abandoned the amphitheater and the auditorium and has retrenched itself among the committee rooms, the round tables, the conference benches. The man worth while is he who has the gift of driving home a point informally against a barrage of conflicting opinions stabbing through a cigar smoke screen laid down by friend and foe alike. The great issues are not decided before the admiring plaudits of an appreciative audience, but are hashed out behind locked doors, with only press reports reaching the general public...
...type of competition is a thing of the past," he went on to say. "The reason that the war between the cigarette and candy manufacturers ended so abruptly, is that Schulte and the United cigar stores bought a great many of the candy shops...
...protect those two guys?" By nightfall some 6,000 infuriated Californians were swarming around the jail and on the lawn of a park across the street. When they rushed the jail's iron doors with two great pieces of iron pipe, tear gas was as useless as cigar smoke. The sheriff was carried off unconscious. The mob found Holmes on the second floor. He put up a hard fight for life. Thurmond was in a cell on the third floor which had been vacated by Palo Alto's Murderer David A. Lamson (TIME, Sept. 11 & 25). He clawed...
...round white spot on the stem was thoroughly internationalized. On this amazing bit of word-of-mouth advertising Alfred Dunhill began to build a world-wide pipe business. Today there are Dunhill agencies in 57 lands from Trinidad to Zanzibar. There is a Dunhill pipe factory in London, a cigar factory in Glasgow, a Dunhill shop in Paris, a Dunhill shop in Manhattan, which was backed by another but not so exclusive tobacconist. David A. Schulte, who is now a majority stockholder in Dunhill International, a U. S. holding company controlling all subsidiaries (except the British in which it owns...
...Avenue and soth Street in Rockefeller Center's British Empire Building will handle all traditional Dunhill gadgets and in addition, bars, drinking outfits, wines & liquors, antique silver, women's sportswear, women's pipes. Features: the world's largest air-conditioned humidor holding 4,000,000 cigars and vaults for customers' private cigar stocks; a glass-enclosed blending room where a professional woman blender will manufacture special cigarets and tobaccos to order; a bullet-proof cash room...