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Readers recalled the old Prussian cere mony of offering a defeated fellow officer a cigaret, a revolver, one bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tradition | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...recent cigaret advertisement showed a well-groomed soldier resting comfortably in a tropical setting, under the slogan, "Light Up and Relax." This ad and others like it last week were soundly thwacked in an editorial in the Down Under (Australian area) edition of Yank, the Army weekly. Drawled Yank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Spanking-of-the-Week | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...users, the drug has many names-many of them evasive. Marijuana may be called muggles, mooter, Mary Warner, Mary Jane, Indian hay, loco weed, love weed, bambalacha, mohasky, mu, moocah, grass, tea or blue sage. Cigarets made from it are killers, goof-butts, joy-smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Weed | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Columbia College's big war plant is under youthful, owlish Acting Dean Nicholas McDowell McKnight (21). An old China hand (cigaret advertising), he later served as aide to the college's late beloved Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes. When Dean Hawkes died, McKnight was in the uniform of a lieutenant, enrolled as a Columbia Naval student. To fill Hawkes's civilian shoes, the Navy inactivized McKnight. The lieutenant has since been as inactive as seven beavers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Columbia in the Heat | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...that "among the men who know tobacco best it's Luckies two to one," also insists that it pays "more than the average market price" for Lucky tobacco. Says FTC : 1 ) tobacco growers, warehousemen and auctioneers will praise any brand to win company good will; 2) each major cigaret producer pays more than the "average market price" for his cigaret tobacco, because that price is actually the average paid for all tobacco including chewing tobacco and snuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Cigaret Advertising | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

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