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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Michigan's Dilemma | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...history of the Parsimonious Freshman's year is Too Lugubrious to mention. Suffice it to say that by the end of the year the Light began to Dawn upon him. Clutching his pencil and paper he began to calculate the profits and losses of his False Economy, and discovered the following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fable of the Parsimonious Freshman | 10/31/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fable of the Parsimonious Freshman | 10/31/1942 | See Source »

After much pencil chewing the four copies came back to Bradley. Heads were on-one copyreader left the "s" out of Chrysler. But not one had questioned the sense or facts of any of the fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: The Women | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...doing lyrics for the Garrick Gaieties, did another song called Out of Breath and Scared to Death of You. He married a pretty Gaieties chorus girl. One day she looked fondly at him, remarked, "You must have been a beautiful baby." Johnny Mercer reached for his pencil, made a song out of that one too. In fact, he is still paying canny Mrs. Mercer royalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mercerized Music | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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