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...Surface. Penman Milton Reynolds came up from the murky underwater world of ball-point pens with an eyecatching new gadget. It was a transparent plastic cigarette lighter with an oversize load of fluid-enough, he said, for 8,304 lights v. 842 for an ordinary lighter. Reynolds said that he has advance orders for 250,000 (including 50,000 for Gimbels), and that subcontractors, already producing 18,000 a day, would soon step up production to 70,000. The price, with the plastic stand and case: $5. So that customers will not associate the lighter with his much-panned...
...first just after he had given the church a spring cleaning. "Now that you have cleaned the church," it read, "would you clean the damned filthy rotten minds of your congregation?" Patrick listened among his parishioners, soon learned that he was not the only target of the poison penman. One woman came to him and threatened to throw herself off the cliff if she got another insulting letter. A respected old villager was accused of fathering his own daughter's child. A heartbroken mother, whose baby had just died, was accused of killing the baby herself. Some thought...
...vicar, who is now pretty sure he knows who Big Baby is, is not dull, but at week's end he had still not named the poison penman of Robin Hood...
...Comics (Macmillan; $5), Artist-Author Colton Waugh, son of the late famed seascaper, Frederick Waugh, has brushed in the history of the funnies' first half-century. An ex-comic-stripper himself (he succeeded Milton Caniff as penman of Dickie Dare), Waugh has done a notable fact-finding job in charting the never-never land that Richard Outcault discovered...
...Milton Reynolds, the ball-point king, finally took off in his converted A26 attack bomber from LaGuardia Field on a flight in which he hoped to circle the globe in a record-shattering 60 hours (present record: 91 hours, 14 minutes, set by Howard Hughes in 1938). No pilot, Penman Reynolds was "navigator...