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...Angeles aircraft-parts manufacturer, with the other. Before long, the manufacturer could not keep up with sales of the inexpensive (97?) pen, which wrote well and did not leak. Frawley bought him out for $18,000, rented a factory for $450 a month and started manufacturing Paper-Mate pens. To solve the problem of fading and transferable ink, he used a new ink that a Hungarian chemist mixed in a makeshift home lab. Frawley's first selling coup was to talk two banks into cashing checks written with his pens. Then Frawley started a big advertising campaign to plug...
...year he spent $30,000 for advertising. This year PaperMate is spending $5,000,000. As a result, sales climbed from $360,000 to an estimated $26 million for 1955. In six years Frawley sold 51 million pens, captured 80% of the ball-point-pen market, and made Paper-Mate one of the largest U.S. pen manufacturers...
...desire to know . the meaning of birth and what has brought it about." In Freud's early childhood there must have been a man who knew the secrets. "Well, there was his half brother Philipp [20 years his senior] whom he suspected of being his mother's mate . . ." Jones guesses that this half brother may have given young Sigmund some joking version of the facts of life that may have hurt the child. This relatively trivial explanation of what Jones justly calls a noble striving is typical of a danger that psychoanalysis often faces the danger of keeping...
...Etienne, a raffish, hairy-chested sea captain on a filthy freighter, appears in the film's funniest sequence: after losing all his money and his cargo of sewing machines ("At least that's what the labels say," explains the mate) in a cutthroat poker game with three lugubrious seamen, he offers 1) his ship, and 2) a monumentally configured and barely clothed native girl that he happens to own, in one last, grand gamble. The other players spurn the ship at first, but accept when the dame is offered as collateral. Etienne's bet: a trapped...
...rescue. It was the sort of mission Koelsch liked: he had voluntarily passed up rotation home after a long tour of combat duty because he felt that his rescue work was urgently needed. In the gathering dusk Lieut. Koelsch and his crewman, Aviation Machinist's Mate George M. Neal, took off, without fighter escort, to look for Wilkins...