In 2005, Andrew Marks was elected into the world's most exclusive society for pipe aficionados, the Pipe Smoker's Hall of Fame.
Founded in 1969 by Colonel L. Edward Lawrence to honor those of "outstanding accomplishments and a devotion to pipes," the Pipe Smoker's Hall of Fame displays the actual pipes owned and smoked by each of its' (just over one hundred) elected members.
Among the distinguished membership whose pipes now rest in the Hall of Fame are Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Anwar Sadat, Gerald R. Ford, Christopher Morley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Basil Rathbone, Edward G. Robinson, Charlton Heston, General Douglas MacArthur, General George Patton, Bing Crosby, Norman Rockwell, Babe Ruth, Pablo Cassals, Walter Cronkite, Admiral Richard Byrd, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Sitting Bull.
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