Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speaking to Jesuits now meeting in Rome in Extraordinary General Congregation (TIME, Sept. 16), he urged Jesuits and members of other orders to eliminate "without ado and with courage all superfluous things," including tobacco. Also to be shunned: pleasure trips and extended vacations. Plainly convinced that it is better to smoke than to burn, a spokesman for the hard-smoking Jesuits said: "Tobacco is usually a luxury, but it can be a necessity with some people...
...they panted after Revlon, the most dynamic cosmetic-maker in the U.S., veteran admen gulped their Gibsons nervously at the thought of also taking on Revlon's rambunctious President Charles Revson, 50, the most feared, cheered and jeered advertising client since the late George Washington Hill of American Tobacco fearlessly sent Lucky Strike green...
This book represents Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell's annual defense of a title that is indisputably his-America's No. 1 cracker-barrel pornographer. Caldwell has rarely overindulged in four-letter words; he is simply a master of what might be called dirty-situation comedy. Since about 40 million hard-a nd soft-cover copies of his 34 books have been snapped up by U.S. and foreign readers (God's Little Acre tops the list with more than 8,000,000 copies sold), the reader can only conclude that to leer is human...
...country minister's son, Georgia-born Erskine Caldwell never lived on Tobacco Road, but the road was close enough never to be a joke, dirty or otherwise, to him. He feels that this most celebrated of his books is as true to life in the backwashes of the rural South today as when he wrote it ("The rich are richer, the poor poorer"). Caldwell rarely reads. He argues that asking a writer if he has read any good books by other authors is "like asking a doctor if he's taken any good medicines lately." The father...
...extract tobacco tar from cigarettes for their cancer-tracking experiments on mice, doctors use strange contraptions that smoke cigarettes incessantly. Latest and biggest such smoking robot was installed last week in Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Puffing 600 cigarettes every ten minutes-100 cartons a day-the machine's rotating drum takes ten drags, ejects the butts and begins smoking new ones blown into place by compressed air. The smoke inhaled by the machine is broken down in refrigerated condensers to produce...