Word: pencilers
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...Francisco, some teen-agers dye their hair green. Others pencil their eyebrows in red, paint cat's whiskers on their faces, wear purple lipstick. Their hats are trimmed with swizzle sticks, foxtails and pipe cleaners. Shouting the password "Zorch!" (fuzz-beard lingo for Hollywood's "colossal!"), they storm into a radio studio in the Palace Hotel five nights a week to pay homage to a bop-talking disk jockey named Richard Bogardus Blanchard. In five months "Red" Blanchard, 33, has zoomed from a routine job as staff announcer at station KCBS to a position that his pressagents describe...
...Coronation day remembrances were ready to be handed out. Some of them: a gift of up to two ounces of candy for every school-age child in the British Isles; "a coronation propelling pencil" for every schoolchild in London-some $174,000 worth of pencils in all; a check for 2 guineas ($5.88) for every baby born in Birmingham on coronation day, a free drink of whisky for every father and free nylons for every mother of a coronation day baby in Baldock, Hertfordshire...
...stops talking and you notice she has been telling you about the play for a long time, and you have not been writing anything, only watching her talk. You pick up the pencil again, and begin the usual questions again. Her favorite composers are Debussy and Villa Lobos. "I like music I can feel." Depending on her mood, she likes to sing, dance, or act. "It's all dramatics, you know, on the stage. I like dramatic acting very much...
...more expensive big brother, the long-barreled revolver, shoots for a guaranteed 75 feet, and further, if boosted with a special jet squirt. The sleek, narrow barrel aims with pin-point accuracy, known to flick a pencil from a hand. Even the great man of guns, Ed McGiverin, claims no such feats in his "Fast and Famous Revolver Shooting...
...first time I ever tried to paint hands," said the President in a tone of mixed pride and shyness. "It is very dark around the eyes," he added, thoughtfully. "I'm very awkward." Then he showed Jones a note written on the back of the canvas in grease-pencil: "Bob, by his friend D.D.E...