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...clear a path for the more skilled, European game that dominates the NHL today. He overcame his shyness to become the perfect ambassador: humble, accessible, nice and somehow impeccably earnest without being creepy. The biggest off-ice controversy he ever faced was whether being on the cover of Cigar Aficionado sent a bad message to children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wayne Gretzky: The Great One Skates Away | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...American Greetings has proudly trumpeted the First Family's annual holiday card as its greatest prize. Of late, though, some artists at the Cleveland-based company have been itching to lampoon their most famous customers, but worry about offending retailers. Sighs one illustrator: "We won't be doing any cigar gags, that's for sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roses Are Red, Card Sellers Blue | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...used to be very good at doing nothing. I'd go for a walk nowhere in particular, lie on the beach, look at the clouds. If I were feeling ambitious, I might light a cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Means Something | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Bakelite became so visible in so many places that the company advertised it as "the material of a thousand uses." It became the stuff of everything from cigar holders and rosary beads to radio housings, distributor caps and telephone casings. A 1924 TIME cover story on Baekeland reported that those familiar with Bakelite's potential "claim that in a few years it will be embodied in every mechanical facility of modern civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemist LEO BAEKELAND | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click again, and zip off to Singapore, to a company that specializes in "pet moving." Enquire about buying industrial-age nuts and bolts from "the Bolt Boys" in South Africa, or teddy bears in upstate New York. Exotic cigar labels! Tantric sex guides! Four-poster beds for dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Network Designer Tim Berners-Lee | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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