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...TIME, Nov. 12, 1945) et seq. Eversharp hoped to capture the pen market. But many another company, notably Reynolds Pen, got there first and skimmed the cream off. When Eversharp did get its pen out, it ran into the same trouble that plagued the other ball-point penmen: the pen did not write well...
Quick were Old Gold's silver penmen to start the backfire. Reader's Digest's July issue was still on top of the rack in the bathrooms of American homes when Old Gold hit the newspapers with full-page advertisements...
Barrel Body Stearns, speedy captain of the Plympton Street Penmen, engineered a smashing barrage that left the Little Green flat on its back. Butch Lyman distinguished himself at main passes...
...Penmen. Great progenitor of the pen-and-ink school was the virtuoso, Charles Dana Gibson, whose crisp and incredibly thoroughbred characters lived so vividly in the old Life that in 1920 Gibson was able to buy the magazine for $1,000,000. President of the Society of Illustrators from 1904-05 and from 1909-20, Gibson was honored at last week's exhibition by a retrospective room full of Gibson Girls. Now 71 and long retired, high-collared, big-chinned "Dana" Gibson paints all day in a 59th Street studio but not a soul is permitted...
Like those expert penmen who can inscribe the Lord's Prayer on the back of a stamp, Author Graves has written a whole close-knit modern comedy on the back of his. He has fun with his story, and so do readers, unless they are the kind who must have sugar on their salad. Idealists should think twice about reading The Antigua Stamp; realists will quite possibly read it twice. For readers who are accustomed to find their way quickly to the side of the angels, it may be a shock to discover that in this book there...