Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Aug. 5 report on the price of our new pen is causing confusion at the trade level. It is correct that Paper-Mate will market a new low-priced pen, but it will retail at 98? - not 89? as you stated...
...TIME'S pen blotted...
...Curzio Malaparte (real name: Kurt Suckert), 59, Italian writer (Kaputt, The Skin), polemical journalist and unorthodox cinema writer-director-producer (Forbidden Christ, called in the U.S. Strange Deception); of lung cancer; in Rome. Born in Tuscany of a German father, Italian mother, Malaparte was called Fascism's "strongest pen" during the '203, turned hostile to the regime and was interned (1933-38), most recently accepted Italian Communist financing of a trip this spring to China, but on his return, seriously ill, was baptized a Roman Catholic. Despite his erratic politics, his more than two dozen books, which ranged...
...favorite saloon Porter was in the habit of gaining the attention of the bartender by calling, "Oh Henry!" One of his buddies suggested "O. Henry" as a good pen name, since he had certainly used it enough...
Citation: "You wield an angelic pen dipped in impish ink. A serious literary critic, you have delighted your readers and doubtless yourself by revealing the many and curious kinds of astigmatism that have beset generations of critics...