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Word: penned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shall I tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crewcut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural for three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxophone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: DOWN and OUT in Cambridge | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...ever since, his pranks have been the pub chatter of the natives. A sun-cured, white-bearded bachelor of 52, White lives alone except for the hedgehogs, snakes and hawks that he favors as pets. His absentmindedness is legend. When he is writing-in green ink with a quill pen-friends have to remind White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parfit Gentil Knyght | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...Quiz shows that replace crooked quiz shows may be regarded as fair game for crooks: televiewers from New York, Massachusetts and Virginia have already used pen, paste pot and scissors in an effort to break the bank on Top Dollar, CBS replacement for Dotto (see above). Since the show promised up to $5,000 for dollar bills bearing certain serial numbers, the light-fingered operators altered other serial numbers in order to qualify. All they won was a Secret Service warning that repetition might bring them an alternate prize: up to 15 years in prison and a $5.000 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Law & the Limelight | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

Togetherness. In Anamosa, Iowa, Gary Lee Wessling, 17, asked to be transferred from the Men's Reformatory in Anamosa to the State Penitentiary in Fort Madison so he could serve his 30-year stretch in the same pen where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...like the Scottishness of Blair or the Norseness of Eric, took Orwell as his pen name from an English river he loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes from a Black Country | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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