Word: pencilers
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...lost none of his sharpness, none of his homespun ruggedness. Bald and stoop-shouldered, he always wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat and stiff collar. When he has a political chore to do in Raleigh, he collars legislators in hotel lobbies, doodles with a pencil stub on one of his shoe soles while he talks to them...
Died. James O'Donnell ("Eye Witness") Bennett, 69, famed retired Chicago Tribune reporter & correspondent; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. An admirer of German efficiency, he picked Germany to win World War I, but scorned the typewriter, wrote in pencil...
...that it approached Picasso? Never. Maybe the whole trouble was that, unlike those six other paintings, it had not been accorded the privilege of decorating two full pages in "Life." Or perhaps if that critic from the New York newspaper hadn't leaned down to pick up the pencil he had dropped just as he was passing the piece, he would have dedicated a few valuable cliches to it in the Sunday edition...
...came to our next meeting at Phillips Brooks House, and with the air of a professional newspaper reporter whipped out a pencil and notebook. ten of us were seated at the round-table. Our Harvard junior manipulated his pencil. He never spoke. The function of a boll-weevil is not to speak but to bore. After the meeting members remarked to me that they were not being favorably attracted to the Harvard student. The impression which his notebook had made on me had not been entirely pleasant, but I reasoned that here was a student accustomed to take notes...
...came to several meetings, punctually whipping out his pencil and notebook. His monumental silence, continued, from meeting to meeting, promised no help to a movement based chiefly on language. We tried to be human towards him, learned to call him by his first name, but we never overcame our repugnance to the notebook...