Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Transformation. The pull of Bootstrap has transformed Puerto Rican life; the dejection of the past is lost in new pride. A case in point is Salinas, on the south coast, once a drowsy and impoverished sugar town. In 1952 Paper-Mate opened a ballpoint-pen plant there, hired 400 workers, three-fourths of them women who had never worked before, and began to sprinkle a payroll of $1,250,000 a year over the town. As almost the first result, a jewelry store opened to sell the gold watches Puerto Ricans admire. A market soon developed for used cars, furniture...
Although Princeton University was rigged for trouble, the campus appearance of Alger Hiss, convicted perjurer and disbarred lawyer, in his first public speech since his release from the Lewisburg federal pen in 1954, turned out to be tame and dull. Protesters that morning had tried to warm Hiss's reception by decking the campus with some 100 papier-mâché pumpkins containing photographs of a Woodstock typewriter and microfilm, reminiscent of the pumpkin papers and other evidence that convicted him. Dawn also unveiled three signs protesting "Traitor" in foot-high red letters. But ex-State Department Employee...
...Petiot returned from Rome to Paris last week with a new papal award, and just in time to launch the most prodigious project of his prodigious career-a brand-new, 150-volume encyclopedia of the Roman Catholic faith. Few have heard of Henri Petiot, ex-schoolteacher. But under his pen name of Daniel-Rops, who in France has not? "Le Bestseller," they call him, and they read his books into record-breaking editions, go to his lectures by the hundreds, buy his magazines by the thousands...
...meeting such a character, the reader may frequently stop worrying about whodunit, and start wondering who wrote it, for Evelyn Piper is a pen name. Real name: Mrs. Merriam Modell, author of five other novels, e.g., The Sound of Years, and wife of a New York doctor...
Danse Macabre. In Prae, Thailand, arrested for the midnight stabbing of her dance partner, Wan Pen (Full Moon) explained wearily to the cops: "We had been dancing to every tune throughout the evening, and I was dead tired...