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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deny myself?" Writer Jamieson once needed up to three packs a day to smoke out a cover story (he has written 15) but he claims that he fueled this one with ten isolated cigarettes. "When I was writing about the psychological satisfactions of smoking, I'd happily light up," he said. "When I turned to the part on cancer, I'd sadly snuff it out." Business Editor Joe Purtell, who has smoked little since corn-silk days, takes a cigar "when given to me," smoked two while editing the cover story (both were gifts). Purtell's favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...With this pipe I can lean over a typewriter and smoke won't get in my eyes." A pipe smoker of more regular habit, Correspondent Dudley Doust collected material on Bowman Gray and R. J. Reynolds during a 2½ week visit to Winston-Salem, N.C., was strafed so steadily with fresh cigarettes that he puffed down about a pack a day - "more than I've smoked since we made roll-your-owns out of cattails when I was a kid in Syracuse, New York." If the men who worked on TIME'S cover story are something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

With a huge gush of smoke and flame, the three-stage Thor-Able rocket last week roared from its Cape Canaveral launching pad, soon to swirl its 270-lb. package into orbit around the earth. To the scientific skeptics who claim that satellites are little more than spectacular stunts, that package provided a spectacularly practical answer: looking down from hundreds of miles in space, it could take and transmit pictures of the earth and its cloud-splotched atmosphere. At the very least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather by Satellite | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...jazz may well lie on campus. Says Leon Breeden, band director of North Texas State: "After they graduate, many of the boys in our band will go on to teach at other schools and will start jazz bands there. The kids won't have to learn in smoke-filled honky-tonks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz on the Campus | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...hard-shelled crab at 2 a.m.. then write music the rest of the night. Early in his career, he worked on as many as six shows at once. Although he threw many songs away, he must have kept a sizable school of minnows along with Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Ol' Man River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melodies in a Safe | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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