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When the steel pen was replacing the quill around 1800 A.D., the world thought it had chipped and scratched its way to some kind of penman's peak. But steel pens could be pushed no faster than 30 words a minute. By 1867, no less than 51 men had tried and failed to invent a machine that would write faster. The 52nd, Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, succeeded. And in its own way, the typewriter started as big a revolution as the mass-produced Ford...
Husky, handsome Paul C. Fisher, owner of Chicago's small but prosperous Fisher Pen Co., thinks of himself as a 20th century Tom Paine, and is hell-bent on stopping the "worldwide drift toward tyranny and destruction." Last week Penman Fisher went to jail for what he thought was the tyranny of the Wages & Hours...
...Pogo's penman will arrive from New York on the evening train, and meet the demonstrators in the Square at 7, from where he will lead the parade to the New Lecture Hall...
...omniscient penman turns out to be a man named Kuno Schiller, a brilliant photographer who has discovered the N-ray-something which can catch men's thoughts for him on sensitized paper. Schiller offers to photograph foreign diplomats, reveal their secrets to the German government. The government accepts his offer and, for a time, acting on Schiller's information, conducts a preternaturally successful foreign policy. (It is the era of the Locarno Pact...
When I am dust my penman...