Word: ballpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...posed as a priest and a policeman in telephone soliciting. In The Bronx, six "nuns" in rented habits and their self-styled "bishop" were arrested for rooking the public in door-to-door campaigns on behalf of themselves. A commonplace practice is to inundate the mails with cheap ballpoint pens (the D.A.V. mailed 32 million in one year), punch cards, nail files, copies of the Lord's Prayer and other unrequested items, accompanied by a "remit or return" demand...
...York, as any visitor can see, is the showplace of change, the city that always sports the latest and shiniest in automobiles, literary movements and ballpoint pens, where perfectly good buildings are torn down every year to make way for newer and better ones. Only its politics have stopped moving. Politically, New York is a kind of petrified forest, where reform candidates roam in solidly institutionalized groups, and the stumps of once-great political growths clutter the landscape...
...were so limited that few customers could get suits. Last week, for the first time, the suits were available in goodly quantities. Result: merchants, whose clothing business had been in a marked slump, found customers crowding their stores with a curiosity faintly reminiscent of the onetime rush for ballpoint pens...
Finger Writer. A ballpoint pen that fits over the index finger has been invented by R. L. Fuerst, a German refugee who fled from Hitler to Spain, then to China, then to the U.S. when the Communists started moving in. He will put it on sale in the spring, has already lined up orders for nearly 90,000. Price...
Globetrotting after the war, Kaltenborn had an interview with Mahatma Gandhi shortly before his death. "He apologized for receiving us in a reclining position, explaining that he was still weak from his recent fast ... I asked Gandhi if he would accept the American ballpoint pen I had in my vest pocket." When secretaries scrambled for the trinket, "turning to me [Gandhi] said with a wan smile, 'You see how I am surrounded by selfish sinners...