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There Van Wyck Brooks awakens early each morning, reads before breakfast, writes from 7:30 till midday, reads again in the afternoon. He uses a quart of black ink a year, has trouble getting the kind he likes. He is as nervous about starting each new book as he was about the first one. He follows no pattern in his writing, never outlines his work, does not know until he is half-finished with a book what form it is going to take. He is now halfway through the reading for the next volume of his history, which will deal...
...citizens of the big powers. Last winter Pravda kicked Wendell Willkie resoundingly in the pants and called him an "obedient speaking trumpet" (he had mildly ventured to state that there is a Polish question). Pravda also mauled New York Times Military Commentator Hanson Baldwin, called him "admiral of an ink pool" (Baldwin had said that Red Army advances were in part German retreats...
Katherine Ralston Goodwin, who freely admits that she is oldest of the Nine (44), is director of WACs in the Army Service Forces. Before she joined the Corps she kept house in Hartford, Conn., tended her flower garden, zipped through murder mysteries and pampered her Siamese cat, "Ink Mink." When she leased her house she put a clause in the contract that the tenants would also have to care for Ink Mink...
Invented by a Hungarian newsman named L. J. Biro, the Stratopen works on the same principle as a printing press. Its inked ball bearing, fed by a fine coiled tube in the barrel, rolls (instead of pours) ink onto the paper. It uses a gelatinous, instant-drying ink. One filling lasts six months...
...that he was subject to fits new and them. After one particularly bad attack, he was installed in Stillman, where he claimed he was being poisoned. The food and drink were more nourishing back home in Moscow, he claimed, and when the doctors found him drinking a bottle of ink one morning, they decided to accord to his wishes and send him back to Russia...