Word: penman
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...cottage to buy fakes for ten or 20 pounds, which, signed, turned up in galleries with fancy provenances. "Did you know it is an art trade practice to sign paintings?" he charged. "There must be someone who goes round the galleries once a month called Jim the Penman...
Aristotle and Jeremiah. But who is the mysterious satirist, himself apparently a veteran of the Kennedy years? The names of Theodore Sorensen and Pierre Salinger somehow do not come to mind. Could it be the midnight penman, John Kenneth Galbraith, who last struck in 1963 (with his pseudonymous The McLandress Dimension)! Prescott's editor at Doubleday, which also happens to be Galbraith's publisher, replies: "Why don't you ask him?" Last week, unfortunately, Galbraith was unreachable in Austria; his secretary said that he was "driving slowly" from an economists' meeting in the Tyrol toward...
Died. David losifovich Zaslavsky, 85, Pravda's most poisonous penman since 1928, who called Churchill "a broken lance bearer," Truman "a cold-war Napoleon," Hammarskjold "a hangman and murderer," but saved his strongest venom for Boris Pasternak, sneering that he was "an extraneous smudge" and leading the chorus that forced the author of Doctor Zhivago to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize; in Moscow...
...Yorker, ten years out of school (at Britain's Rugby and Cambridge), who has made a memorable fable about his seven motherless moppets. He has succeeded, partly by attention to details that worry the practical reader, such as how did they get the money? Little Jiminee, a talented penman, forged endorsements on mother's mysterious but regular checks, and Hubert cashed them when he bought the groceries. Gloag's terrifying tots do more than this; they offer the reader no escape from their own zany world, which is presented as complete in itself with its own tribal...
Twin Typewriters. As synchronized as a pair of cheerleaders, the two sisters interview together, write together, talk together. They also think together: one often finishes a sentence the other has begun. Bonnie, the better penman, takes notes, but back home they compose in concert, peeking over each other's shoulder, pecking out the week's advice. When pressed for time, they resort to twin typewriters, each girl doing her part. This month they are going to Houston to find out how the astronauts stay in such rosy shape. And in the fall they hope to start a television...