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...Donnell put his heavy arm on square-jawed Brigadier General Richard H. Carmichael. a wartime flying pal in the Pacific theater (two Distinguished Service Crosses, two Silver Stars, four Legions of Merit, and the Air Medal with three oakleaf clusters). Around the Pentagon, Carmichael was unofficially dubbed "Vice President of the Air Force in charge of Re-enlistment...
...maverick Marxist. Although he himself knew almost everyone who made the revolution, he is today virtually forgotten except among professional historians. His seven-volume work was first published in 1922, but it has just now been pruned to a single volume and translated into English by Joel Carmichael, onetime OSS officer. The book does little to change the familiar picture, but, unlike most such tomes, it has an eyewitness excitement that makes it even harder to lay down than to lift...
Prospective competitors would have to move fast indeed. Scripto is already producing 60,000 fluid graphite pencils a day, is sold out well into May. Said Scripto President James V. Carmichael: "By the time we catch up with present orders, we will be 3,000,000 units behind...
...Jimmy Carmichael started out in politics. He got his LL.B. from Georgia's Emory University ('33), he became a small-town (Marietta, Ga.) lawyer and went to the state legislature. After the war he ran for 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...
With his capsule pencil, Carmichael hopes to cut deeply into sales of regular pencils, some 1.5 billion of which are sold yearly. Although the capsule model is more expensive, Scripto claims that one cartridge lasts about five times as long as a standard pencil, makes the long-term cost about equal. Biggest advantage: the point will not wear down...