Everyone but The Duke and Maureen O'Hara was smoking a pipe in that one.Watching “The Quiet Man” lots of pipe smoking going on.
Watching “The Quiet Man” lots of pipe smoking going on.
Yeah, a bit like high school.Almost as much pipe smoking as drinking going on in that one. And fighting.
A great movie.
Or family reunions.Yeah, a bit like high school.
No, no more details, though the protagonist does fill and light the pipe numerous times. I'm seeing the same detail in the lead character for his 1955 novel Line of Fire. Knowing how authors like the Ellery Queen cousins and Ian Fleming liked to ascribe the habit to their heroes, I wonder if Hamilton was a pipe smoker? His Matt Helm character starting in 1960 never smokes anything, though.In Donald Hamilton's noir-ish thriller from 1948, The Steel Mirror, the lead character is a chemist who smokes a pipe. No details are mentioned; he merely fills it, smokes it, "pulls on" it, "sucks" on it, etc. (I'm only on p. 83, so details may emerge.)
The "young adult" or YA category has gotten pretty dark nowadays, with themes that would have been a hard sell to write about and publish even in adult novels in the late '40s to early '60s. RAH's juveniles are readable by anybody of any age, esp. Have Space Suit, Will Travel. Tunnel is a neat converse to Lord of the Flies by Golding; both have their place, but RAH's is a lot more uplifting and positive.In the Heinlein story Rocketship Galileo the boys uncle Dr. Cargraves smokes a pipe, even during their trip to the moon if I remember correctly, but it has been a long time since I read it. That story and Tunnel In The Sky were my favorite of his juvenile books (I guess they would call it Young Adult nowadays).
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From Smokingpipes.com Sir Roger Moore with a Falcon