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...said the dead, obedient voice, he had worked secretly with the Nazis during the occupation to keep the people "meek and cooperative." He had helped American officials to "prepare a new war." Ex-U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane had paid him off for his espionage with a gold fountain pen and large sums of money...
...rheumatologists listened with respect to the U.S.'s Dr. Philip S. Hench, who shared a Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery and application of the wonder hormone cortisone. Granting that cortisone is not the "fountain of life" that many sufferers hoped that it would be, Hench inveighed against too much timidity in the use of the drug, which he said had raised "as many false fears as false hopes." In four years' use at the Mayo Clinic, he said, cortisone has proved effective in more than 50% of the thousands of patients receiving it. Moreover, experience...
Later he received newsmen in the fountain-echoing garden of Saadabad Palace and spoke some brutal truths: "The treasury is empty. We need help in the next few days. We do not ask any nation in particular, and we are not beggars, but if help does not come, we will have a nightmarish struggle." In the streets, Americans who had recently been greeted with cries of "Americans, go home," now found themselves welcomed happily by Iranians who let them know that the Iranians had done all of this for them and now counted on help from...
Promptly at 10, the two chief actors entered. Lieut. General William K. Harrison, the U.N. senior delegate, tieless and without decorations, sat down at a table, methodically began to sign for the U.N. with his own ten-year-old fountain pen. North Korea's starchy little Nam II, sweating profusely in his heavy tunic, his chest displaying a row of gold medals the size of tangerines, took his seat at the other table, signing for the enemy. Each man signed 18 copies of the main truce documents (six each in English, Korean, Chinese), which aides carried back & forth...
...Paper-Mate, Atlanta's Scripto, Inc. is bringing out a new, lighter and better-balanced model for $1. Though competition is still fierce, ball-point penmakers have recovered from their recent slump. Last year's ball-point sales: 45 million, v. a mere 28 million conventional fountain pens...