Book currents.(two books)(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 04-MAR-02

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Legend has it that in the late nineteen-twenties the president of American Tobacco was sitting in his car at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street when he noticed nearby an overweight woman chewing gum and then, in a passing taxicab, a slim, short-skirted young woman smoking a cigarette. It marked...

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