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...despite the perennial popularity of Sherlock Holmes, dripping shag tobacco from his well-blackened clay pipe; despite the graceful pipemanship of Bing Crosby; even despite the theories of Freud about what pipe smoking really means-pipe smoking is on the decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Between Clenched Teeth | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...Schuster; $4.95), is an amusing, discursive history of pipes and pipe smoking. Care and cleaning, seasoning, choice of tobacco, how to fill and then empty the bowl, are all gone into with light seriousness-and sometimes almost with mysticism. In an introduction, British Humorist Stephen (Lifemanship) Potter explains about pipemanship, e.g., "practiced pipe smoking is capable of making a cigarette smoker seem flustered and untidy, particularly if [he] maintains a long worm of ash messily drooping from his cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Autumn Leaves | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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