Word: penman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plugs & Slugs. In his new job Clarke is ringmaster for a temperamental menagerie of talent, including Poison Penman John O'Donnell and Broadway Columnist Danton Walker, who has a crystal ball suffering from cataract. One of Clarke's chores is a daily conference with Editorial Writer Reuben Maury and Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor (who used to get their signals from Patterson). Sitting in with them now is a brand-newcomer, quiet, 44-year-old Donald Thompson, an American Weekly graduate. Clarke hired him to backstop Maury. Thompson expects no trouble in adapting himself to Daily News policies-plugs...
...history had a President told Supreme Court justices to get out. The story even named the four justices: Black, Jackson, Frankfurter and Murphy. To devoted News and Times-Herald readers, it looked like the straight dope. To newsmen, it did not: the "scoop" was signed by poison-penman Columnist John O'Donnell...
...power, a trust in a Big Navy-but from being a fervent supporter, he turned to a bitter enemy when Franklin Roosevelt went international. Joe Patterson was a good hater. His hatred for Roosevelt became almost pathological; and anything went, from cracks about Roosevelt's lameness to Poison Penman John O'Donnell's leers at Roosevelt's Jewish advisers. New York City's millions continued to return landslide votes for Roosevelt-and to read the Daily News...
...midst of this, Penman Milton Reynolds, who had already skimmed the cream from the market by getting his pen out first, went after the milk. He arranged to distribute his pens in the United Kingdom, said he plans to open a plant in Australia...
...Gimbels this week ordered another 100,000 pens of a new model not afflicted with embolism. And Reynolds has bought a "practically" new factory in Chicago which will help turn out 30,000 "miraculous" pens a day. But from now on, selling the pens may not be so freehanded. Penman Reynolds wrote his own ticket by tapping the rich postwar market first. Next month he will run into his first stiff competition. Eversharp and Eberhard Faber, who do 10-15% of the U.S. pen-&-pencil business, will put on sale their own ball-point...