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Like many another churchman, Msgr. Sheen was convinced that the press gives a false picture of U.S. life by overplaying crime, lust and violence, "prints mainly the bad, seldom the good." Said he: "Take a pencil and go through the papers. On virtually every article you can put a number . . . [to] represent a broken Commandment, the breaking of which has made news...
Artistic students exercise their talents with pen and ink sketches or pencil drawings of their destinations. Others criticize their friends' escorts or activities. Boys fill in the time until their dates are ready by scanning the books...
...first of his weekly letters back to Matthews, he wrote that the "Economisters" had welcomed him politely enough to give him a "jam-on-jam feeling" the first day. He soon found himself treated as a "resident American oracle," expected to answer at the drop of a pencil such questions as "What is the first name of Senator Johnson from Texas?" and "What is a cookie-pusher?" The answer to these came easy, but occasionally he was jolted by deadpan requests to rattle off statistics-like the average number of short tons of zinc which U.S. industry normally...
...Pencil of God, by Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin. The decline & fall of a Haitian businessman whose only serious weakness was women (TIME...
Arabs to Indians. Like the early Hollywood pioneers, the pencil-mustached producer entered moviemaking from theater operation. He says he owned his first theater at the age of 14, got the down payment ($800) by starting a newspaper at Alameda (Calif.) High School and selling ads. During the war he turned garages and stores into movie houses to cash in on the heavy business around shipyards. His booming theaters began using up so many pictures that he went into distribution, then into production, to meet the demand...