Word: pencilers
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...quasi-Bohemian, quasi-revolutionary circles with which Paris was awhirl in the days of the Commune. Heine made German enemies by his polemical bitterness, French friends by his personal charm, contributed briefly to a radical weekly edited by Karl Marx. In Paris, at 58, he died-crying "Paper! Pencil!" The wonder was that he had lived so long. A syphilitic infection, contracted in his university days and never diagnosed, had progressively lamed his left leg, crippled his left arm, and in his last years reduced him to almost helpless invalidism...
What dramatic force there is to the play is heightened by the work of Joseph Buloff, who alone of the cast seemed to get completely inside his assigned characterization. The sardonic comedy of Evelyn Varden, as mistress of the villa, helps, but Author Hecht failed to pencil in much of a part for Sylvia Sidney, six years absent from the Manhattan stage, with the result that the whole counterplot love story seems a device to accent the general indecisiveness of Hero Sterns...
...That was posed by a Chinese soldier in a Japanese uniform!" shrilled Lieut.-Colonel Tan Takahashi of the Tokyo Japanese General Staff to Manhattan reporters. "Our Japanese bayonet technique is entirely different from that and I can prove it!" Grabbing a pencil, the Japanese officer thrust, ripped and jabbed an imaginary enemy while yipping war cries with such realism that a female reporter was overcome with queasiness...
...with Brother Victor became one of the first foreigners to obtain commercial concessions in Russia, sold Ford tractors, Moline plows, later bought Russian beer barrel staves for his U. S. factories. Realizing that the Soviet bureaucracy was becoming swamped in a morass of official papers, they obtained a pencil-making concession...
...first glance, like an incredible amount of pied type. Closer inspection reveals a few recognizable proper names and some German-sounding words, but all set in English characters. The column carries the head Pumpernickle Bill, with a small drawing of a hayseedy fellow with stringy beard, corncob pipe, pencil behind ear. But no hayseed or pie-eyed compositor is Columnist Pumpernickle Bill. He is serious-minded William Stahley Troxell, 44, an ex-school teacher, now probably the most loved and certainly the best known man around Allentown...