Word: pencilers
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...Aiken constantly emphasizes to exuberant laymen who see in this development the end for need of human cerebration. Neither Mark I nor any of the prospective calculators will be able to accomplish problems that cannot be fully reasoned out in advance and capable of solution with homely paper and pencil. The revolution that the giant calculator has brought to mathematics is the conquest of time. Even Mark I, whose fundamental mechanisms are mechanical rotating counter wheels, can accelerate by 250 to 600 times the speed of ordinary calculation...
...walked into Manhattan's jangling, spangly Monte Carlo where Bill Zeckendorf was just beginning to enjoy himself. It was his sixth wedding anniversary, his partner's 34th birthday. Architect Harrison had a map of Manhattan in his hand. Ringing Zeckendorf's East Side site with a pencil, he asked: "How much?" Without batting an eye, Zeckendorf tossed off his answer: $8,500,000. Forthwith, a 30-day option in the name of John D. Rockefeller Jr. was signed...
...other encounter, a close call, had spared Runyon's life but struck him dumb. His larynx had been removed, to check a throat cancer. Since then, his gold pencil, by swift jottings in a loose-leaf notebook, had done all his talking for him. ("When he was mad," said a pal, "he'd just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time...
When mystery story writer Craig Rice was covering the Heirens murder story for a Chicago paper, Hillman called to get some dope on her assignment, was invited to go along on "a terrific clue that may break the case." It turned out to be some strange pencil scribblings on a package that one of Rice's readers had received from Sears, Roebuck and Co. It was, of course...
...just try to get inside. At a circus, a clown named "Karandash" (pencil) kept dashing into the ring with a little white hen, which escaped in a flutter of feathers. "Why do you beat your hen?" asked the ringmaster. Answers Karandash: "Because she only gives me powdered eggs...