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Lucky Curve. Founder George Par ker was a telegraphy teacher back in 1888 when he became tired of the primitive fountain pens of the day and invented a pen of his own. His business surged after he developed the "lucky curve" -a curved ink-feeding device that prevented ink from leaking when the pen was stored upright in a user's pocket. He kept adding technical improvements, caught the public fancy with such gimmicks as the showy orange and black Duofold pen that be came the raccoon coat of the pen indus try in the 1920s, and soon...
...Euromart, the Eurodollar and the Eurochick (the rising class of smart young working girls), a French firm with the un-Gallic name of Machines Bull has just added another contribution: the Eu-rocheck. Ready to switch to the magnetic-ink system of automatic checking now spreading throughout the U.S., European nations have been looking around for the best system. To many, it seemed that the firm likeliest to walk away with the biggest fistful of orders was IBM, whose sales in France alone were up 41% last year. But scrappy Machines Bull has soundly tweaked the giant's nose...
...particularly on the part of French bankers, but the Machines Bull method has definite advantages over the U.S. system. The U.S. method, which uses machines that are built by General Electric, National Cash Register and Burroughs Corp. as well as by IBM, electronically "reads" the numbers formed by magnetic ink on the check. To conform to the machines' peculiar reading habits, numbers must be printed in distorted characters that the human eye finds hard to read, and a smudged printing job can occasionally trick the machines...
When the last newspaper is printed and the ink is faded and dried...
...lesser rank in any other field, and so he gave the impression that his art was a mere bagatelle to occupy his spare time. The drawings, he said, were "pen scratchings" that he turned out "between verses, during moments of reverie, and almost unconsciously with what ink remained...