Word: tiparillo
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...start of the crucial four-mile race. On the banks, men in three-piece business suits and varsity ties read. The New York Times, while children climbed trees searching for a better view. An elegantly antique Radcliffe grad in a white lace shirt and a straw hat, smoking a Tiparillo, waited patiently under a tree while two former Harvard competitors from a race long past reminisced about their own experiences at Red Top, Harvard's special boathouse on the Thames. Paint-brush wielding students decorated the rocks with...
...pissed off," he says right away, sipping his beer. It's hard to generalize about what a professional athlete looks like--Brayton doesn't wear a suede jacket and smoke Tiparillo Slims: maybe that's what the successful ones affect. Brayton is dressed in a kind of messy, informal Brooks Brothers, probably the same way he dressed a few years back when he was in the Owl Club. His life now, two and a half years after graduation, is closer to that limbo of college than that of his contemporary alumni, who have neatened up by now. Brayton's still...
...cigar-smoking populace to 18 million. Among them are an estimated 100,000 women, including such well-pouted puffers as Greta Garbo and Edie Adams, who advertises Consolidated's Muriels. The heaviest pitch to women has been made by second-ranked General Cigar ("Should a gentleman offer a Tiparillo to a lady?"), but Consolidated has also acknowledged the market. It's "Have you noticed how many men are smoking cigars?" ads have been discreetly rephrased to "Have you noticed how many people are smoking cigars?" The cigar companies doubt that the feminine market will last, and predict that...
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