Across this land some 10 million cigar smokers yearn for a front-page picture of Mondale, the only dedicated cigar smoker among the Democratic contenders, with his Punch panatela .
But Mike Di Salle sucked another cloud of smoke from his 8 panatela and stood his ground.
The case, taken to court, became the most celebrated of its day, with newspapers deriding Brancusi's Bird as everything from a "lean banana" to a "white panatela cigar.