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...office than he found him self in hip boots, helping to shovel up the muddy debris of a flood that had immersed the plant. Adler, now 33, has since cleaned up at pen making in an even bigger way. As president of the renamed and revivified Waterman-Bic Pen Corp., he has expanded the Milford, Conn., firm into the nation's leading manufacturer of ballpoint pens, with 20% of the industry's estimated $120 million-a-year sales and 40% of its 1.2 billion-pens-a-year output...
...hours. At 25, he dropped his 17 pseudonyms, invented Inspector Maigret, and wrote the first of "more than 60" detective novels that have made him the most famous of French whodunists. In his 30s he began to write an occasional straight novel (The Snow Is Black, The Bells of Bicêtre), and he wrote them with such fierce finesse that André Gide pronounced him "perhaps the greatest and most truly novelistic novelist in French literature today...
...their confrontation with Hayes Bick. The students took their time deciding they wanted some coffee and a doughnut. The man behind the counter waited. When he put a tray in front of them one of the students, smoking a pipe, exclaimed it was dirty. The tray was a normal Bic tray with the usual coffee stains. The man wiped the tray with a paper napkin. The pipe smoker loudly protested that wiping a tray did not make it clean. The man removed the tray and put another one in front of the students. The students claimed that that tray...
...BELLS OF BICÉTRE by Georges Simenon. 240 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...innumeri reportores et interviewores newspaperum. Lowellus - unus, ut tuns immortalis Chuzzlewit dixit, "notissimorum hominum in hac republica" - speechificavit speechum non malum; et Clivarius Wendell Holmesius cepit opportunitatem recitare, longum poema, concoctum pro occasione; sed nenter horum erat in Latino, gratiae ad coelum! Non sumus mors-super Latino bic. Prefer amus linguam Americanam, vel, ut vos prave dicitis, Anglicam...