the Soviet press, now in genial pipe-smoking profile, now walking with his comrades..." Jacques Tati, French actor, comedian and film director. Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav president-for-life. Commonly shown smoking cigarettes from a pipe. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), British novelist. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have several detailed scenes of characters engaging in it. Tolkien himself was an avid pipe smoker. Mark Twain (1835–1910), American author, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, writer of Huckleberry Finn favored Missouri Meershaum corncob pipes. He was notoriously partial to a special blend of "Cuban leaf" pipe tobacco, remarking once that "If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go." Edward Upward, British novelist. Martin Van Buren (1782–1862), Eighth President of the United States (1837–41). Lee Van Cleef, American actor (as the Bad in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch painter. Paul Vanden Boeynants (1919–2001), Belgian Prime Minister. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas blues musician guitar player and songwriter (1954–1990) Alan Watts, British writer and speaker. Harold Wilson (1916–1995), UK Prime Minister (1964–70, 1974–76). Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985), Finnish designer and sculptor. Fictional characters Bacicci, a sailor whose silhouette is featured on U.C. Sampdoria's club crest. Olivier B. Bommel, Dutch comics character from Tom Poes. César, Belgian comics character from Urbanus. Cowboy Henk, Belgian comics character. Frosty the Snowman, A fictional Christmas character, featured in both songs and cartoon films of the same name, that is always depicted and described as "With a corncob pipe and a button nose, and two eyes made out of coal". Such depictions likely suggests that Frosty was a pipe smoker, or at least an aesthetic pipe proprietor. Snufkin, Finnish literary and comics character from The Moomins, though his pipe is absent in some incarnations. Captain Haddock, Belgian comic character from The Adventures of Tintin. Sherlock Holmes, British literary character. He is explicitly described as a pipe smoker. Monsieur Hulot, French film character. Kapitein Rob, Dutch comics character. M, British literary and film character (James Bond). Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine, of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Jules Maigret, Belgian literary character, created by Georges Simenon, who was also a pipe smoker. Mammy Yokum, American comics character from Li'l Abner. Philip Mortimer, Belgian comics character from Blake and Mortimer. L'Oncle Paul, Belgian comics character. Paulus the woodgnome, Dutch comics character. Madam Pheip, Belgian comics character from The Adventures of Nero. She is a