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...University, recalls that he was particularly busy that winter. Then a professor of Greek and Latin, he had taken on a new course, and night after night he sat at his desk composing his lectures. Meanwhile, his wife sat on the couch near by, quietly scribbling away with a pencil. One evening she stopped, drew a firm line on the paper and said with a sigh of relief, "There. That's done. Would you like to read it?" Highet said rather vaguely, "Yes, of course." He started to read the pages covered with his wife's precise handwriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queen of the Spies | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...Palmolive is marketing Batbath bubble soap. Hallmark is bringing out Batman greeting cards. Toy companies, including Mattel, Ideal, Louis Marx and Remco, are turning out Batman toys. There are Batmasks, Batcapes, Batkites, Batbuttons, Batpuppets and Batguns as well as jackets, pajamas, towels, quilts, wallets, bathing suits, lunch boxes and pencil cases with Batman insignia on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Promotion: The Batboom | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

Always short of das Rheingold on his $115-a-month allowance, high-living Wolfgang ("Wummi") Wagner, 23, made up an unheroic plot. Tucked away in the family's old Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth was an 1839 pencil sketch that Jean Auguste Ingres had made of Composer Franz Liszt, and after the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 21, 1966 | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...Spain, most corporations now give the traditional ccsta, a hamper of food, wines and liquors, some of which cost up to several hundred dollars and require several men to transport. The British are big on food hampers, desk equipment, pen and pencil sets and cocktail accessories, have stepped up their overseas giving as part of their export drive. Germany's most common gift is the calendar, followed by leather goods, such metal goods as pocket knives and scissors and desk equipment. Everybody seems to be fond of giving such gadgets as a blinking alarm clock or a pocket vacuum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: The Business of Giving | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...same time Scripto, one of the few manufacturers of writing instruments that make both their own ink and all the component parts for their pens, is profiting from the unexpected sales resurgence of an old company standby, the mechanical pencil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Blacker Ink at Scripto Inc. | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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