Tag: New York City
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Samuel Paley, La Palina and CBS
When Samuel Paley (1875-1963) and his partners bought a network of 16 struggling stations known as Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System, he intended to use CBS to promote his La Palina cigars. Needless to say, the acquisition was a success. So was his currently less known but back then rapidly growing cigar company. Opened in his…
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Nat Sherman
Unaware of the name, but simply having spotted an elegant shop in which I thought to have found a place in New York City to buy pipe tobacco, I entered this establishment many months ago. At that time I was not smoking anything on a regular basis. I had returned to my city of birth…