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...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...
...York Daily News's poison penman, John Parsons O'Donnell, was caught in an untruth, and had to eat his words. In his Capitol Stuff column, which goes to the News's 2,000,000 readers, a good part of them Jewish, O'Donnell had put forth his own version of why General George S. Patton Jr. had fallen from power and glory. Hinted O'Donnell darkly: a Jewish plot...
...Penman's Folly. In Boston, Handwriting Expert Elizabeth McCarthy, checking signatures on mayoralty nomination papers, came across her own name - neatly forged...
...wisdom: Westbrook Pegler, George Fielding Eliot, Ludwig Bemelmans, Drew Pearson, Ely Culbertson, Orson Welles. Mixed in were avowed propagandists, ranging from Edgar Ansel Mowrer (who was pleased to call the conference "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper") to the New York Daily News's poison penman John O'Donnell. Even before the conference opened, O'Donnell said that "nothing ever was staged in this generation on such a scale of mass hypocrisy and global double cross." The News's isolationist sister, the Chicago Tribune, had already passed similar judgment : "The prime purpose...
...Manhattan, U.S. Secret Service agents last fortnight "discovered" the work of a most gifted artist. The artist himself was not on hand; indeed, he will prefer to remain nameless as long as he can, for he is responsible for one of the prettiest feats of counterfeiting since Jim the Penman...