Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper bug bit Alvin Wiehle during a long illness in 1940. At first he made just one weekly copy of his four-page tabloid, printing it by hand in pencil. This year he began to dream of expanding, printed a suggestive notice on Page Two: "Washington, Sept. 14-For his birthday and Christmas, Alvin wants a mimeograph duplicator. . . ." Later Alvin roared gleefully to press with a Monday "extra" proclaiming: A. w. HAS DUPLICATOR-His three older sisters (he has four sisters and two brothers...
...look as if someone ought to make up Henry Luce's mind. After a series of articles on the contributions of America's colleges to the war effort, LIFE's feature in last week's issue on what goes on in Indiana University is enough to whet the propaganda pencil of any Axis spokesman. If LIFE's editors are to be listened to, students in our colleges are having a riot of a time making pick-ups in libraries, wearing zoot suits, and playing havoc with the sanity of their professors...
...more than two decades Artist Peggy Bacon has been impartially decapitating friend & foe with neat strokes of her pen, pastel and pencil. She has also illustrated children's books. Last week a huge retrospective exhibition of Baconiana at Manhattan's Associated American Artists Galleries gave gallery-goers a chance to see what her art added up to. Of 142 exhibits, covering the walls of four large rooms, Bacon-lovers saw 35 pastels (including twelve caricatures of men & women who nevertheless remain Miss Bacon's friends), 74 drypoints (including The Socialist Meeting and Backstairs Gossip), 13 etchings (including...
While the returns were coming in, Judge Ferguson pulled a pencil from his pocket to make notes. It bore the legend UNITED STATES SENATE; he had picked up Senator Brown's pencil at the radio debate. The pencil was an omen: Judge Ferguson got 576,307 votes; Brown 549,614. Harry Kelly polled 632,674 votes; Van Wagoner...
...this Point, the Parsimonious Freshman threw away his pencil and paper, seized his fountain Pen and Check Book, and at once made out his subscription for the following year...