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...others discovered, a woman's handbag is an all-purpose arsenal. Nail files and umbrella handles are good for gouging, hairbrush handles, ball-point pens and rolled-up magazines for general jabbing at vital areas. Hatpins* are oldfashioned, but very useful: "If you hold it by the top you can make holes in people." High heels and key rings are excellent for leaving marks: "Hold the key ring in your palm, make the keys extend through your fingers and scratch. We won't have any trouble identifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: In Defense of Women | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...leading manufacturer of costume jewelry), came to the G.O.P.'s aid, cried: "Let's make our women beautiful. Let us not tax beauty." But enough Democrats did vote against beauty to beat the amendment, 48-45. Iowa Republican Bourke Hickenlooper wanted to repeal the tax on ball-point pens, lost decisively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: You Can Almost Start Spending It Now | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...your report of Vice President Nixon's visit to Africa and his interview with my father, Nana Osae Djan II: my father speaks English extremely well. After graduating from a Methodist school, he taught school for several years. As for the gift of the ball-point pen, I would like to make it clear to you that in Ghana, when a chief sits in state, it is considered discourteous to refuse a gift, however petty. If my father did accept this pen, in the manner in which you reported, he did so out of respect to the American Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...will concentrate on the low-priced field; Parker will stick to the higher-priced pencil. Both companies will use Parker's Liquid Lead name, hoping that the agreement will discourage the kind of fly-by-night competition that almost ruined the industry in the early days of the ball-point pen. Said Parker's Executive Vice President Daniel Parker: "We feel that with a high-quality standard, any imitators at a lower-quality level will find it pretty tough sledding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pencil Pact | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...governor against Herman E. Talmadge, and was beaten under the state's county unit system, although he won the popular vote. After that, he joined Scripto as assistant to the president. A year later he became president, started the company expanding rapidly with ball-point pens, became the second biggest ball-point pen maker (behind Los Angeles' Paper-Mate) and the biggest mechanical pen and pencil maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: The Capsule Pencil | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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