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Tough Alloy. "Elgiloy," a tough, cobalt-base alloy developed by Elgin National Watch Co. and Battelle Memorial Institute for rustproof and breakproof watch springs, is now on the market. Possible uses: fountain-pen nibs, valves, dental equipment, aircraft instruments and bearings...
...Four Americans, including Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant, signed the exchanges. Biggest problem: finding four fountain pens to present to the Americans. Most fountain-pen factories have been converted to defense production. After much telephoning and shop-combing, four pens were purchased, engraved with the signatories' names...
...last week Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews removed his bronze bust of Franklin Roosevelt, his handsome fountain-pen set, other personal belongings from Room 5144 in Washington's Department of Labor Building. Just eight days short of a year since Federal wage-hour regulation began, gloomy, google-eyed Elmer Andrews had resigned by request. His letter of resignation was curtly addressed to "Mr. President." Franklin Roosevelt replied to "Dear Elmer...
...Elisha and his second wife marched out of their small flat in Greenwich Village, reminded his relatives of the will left in 1901 by his great-uncle, Inventor-Founder Lewis Edson Waterman. None of the Waterman clan but Elisha had remembered that this sage greybeard bequeathed 60% of the fountain-pen stock to Frank Dan Waterman with the proviso that on his death it go to Elisha. Said Elisha last week as he became executive vice president and director: "It is quite clear that my great-uncle meant me to be his ultimate heir...
Sure of his destiny, Elisha kept tabs on the fountain-pen business during his exile, will now handle advertising and employe and public relations preparatory to "running things before long in cooperation with my brother." His chief ambition is to restore Waterman to the No. 1 position in the industry now held by Parker Pen Co. He hopes this will not prevent his writing a novel or two on the side. When he writes he scrupulously uses a Waterman pen...