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...Zaner-Bloser, the nation's largest supplier of handwriting manuals, offers coursework through the eighth grade but admits that these days, schools rarely purchase materials beyond the third grade. The company, which is named for two men who ran a penmanship school back when most business documents were handwritten, occasionally modifies its alphabet according to cultural tastes and needs. (See pictures of a public boarding school...
...most recent shift occurred in 1990, when Zaner-Bloser eliminated all superfluous adornments from the so-called Zanerian alphabet. "They were nice and pretty and cosmetic," says Kathleen Wright, the company's national product manager, "but that isn't the purpose of handwriting anymore. The purpose is to get a thought across as quickly as possible." One of the most radical overhauls was to Q, after the U.S. Postal Service complained that people's sloppy handwriting frequently caused its employees to misread the capital letter as the number...
...Then, of course we received a flood of letters. The friendliest was from the person most injured-Miss Gale herself, who even offered to help the misguided Mr. Bloser to straighten things out! She sent us a copy of the following note...
...Dear Mr. Bloser - Various people have called my attention to your use of my story, The Biography of Blade. . . . I am deeply interested to know what caused this use of the story on your part. I wondered if I could interpret it to my publishers or to Liberty. . . . Naturally in a story which involves me so many times I feel deeply concerned to know how it could have been used in this way with you - and especially why. I suppose this will be taken up with you by the usual avenues, but if you care to talk it over with...
...Writer Bloser, 26, a teacher of penmanship, was arrested, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. According to D. Appleton & Co., he insisted he wrote the story himself when in school many years ago. Miss Gale expressed her belief in Bloser's innocence of deliberate plagiarism. Bloser made a financial settlement with Liberty, received a suspended sentence...