One of my Great American hero's. I retired from the Corps 2002
Famous Historical Pipe Smokers
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I had no idea he was a pipe smoker, I always imagined him smoking cigs. Much more tasteful pipe then the ridiculous one MacArthur had
Grew up with this guy on the news. Walter Cronkite one of the last great American News Reporters.
Red Foley visited Springfield Missouri the summer of 1946 to judge talent competitions for aspiring pretty girl singers.
Since my mother had headlined at the 1946 Camdenton J-Bar-H rodeo the radio station KWTO invited her to audition before Red Foley, live on KWTO.
As my Grandma and Aunt Mildred would tell the story they helped her get ready and calm her nerves and went along as moral support, and Grandma had to sign for her to be on the air.
Mama said they had her sit on a stool before a microphone with her guitar, and the musicians were just fabulous, and she belted out Jealous Heart to Red Foley, and just absolutely nailed it.
When she’d finished Red Foley and Ralph Foster came over to her and were just amazed a 20 year old girl could sing like that.
Red Foley said little Miss Lois, you sing like a bird and you are as pretty as a picture.
Now, can we hear you yodel like Pasty Montana?
Twenty years later, my Daddy would come in from the milk barn and fetch Mama’s guitar and she’d sing for us like she sang for the rodeo crowds and for Red Foley.
And whenever she did, my Daddy would always say, thank the Lord you can’t yodel, or else you’d be in Nashville and I’d be all lonesome here by myself.
The only Iowa born President , Herbert Hoover
I heard last night that Hoover regularly went over the list of things purchased by the U.S. government to see if a more cost effective alternative might exist. Of course, the list was a bit shorter than current.
Yes Sean Connery
Although that isn't from one of the Bond movies.
I think Roger Moore and Sean Connery both smoked a pipe in some of the Bond movies as well.
Looks like it was from Murder on the Orient Express, the 1974 version. Connery’s character smoked that pipe, or held it, frequently.
Georges Simenon (1903-1989), journalist and author of over 200 novels, notably the crime fiction series featuring the French police detective Jules Maigret who, like Sherlock Holmes, often smoked his way through to the solution of a problem. A great man for the pipes, Simenon apparently liked Dunhills and Charatans best, and owned some Ropps as well. Royal Yacht and Prince Albert were among the blends he smoked.