Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheaffer Pen Co. gave up its long fight for price fixing, announced that it would sell to certain "large-volume retail outlets," i.e., discount houses. To police its prices, Sheaffer spent $2 million over the past two years and lopped off some 700 dealers...
...pen is mightier than the sword-that man of letters ("Dear Mamma") Harry S. Truman...
After grappling with two ghostwriters on the issue of how memorable her memoirs should be (TIME, Oct. 17), the Duchess of Windsor joined the dwindling list of do-it-yourself autobiographers, sailed for Paris to take pen in hand, "starting from scratch," in tracing her own rise from Baltimore. Her new title for the yarn, slated to begin serialization in McCall's magazine next March: The Heart Has Its Reasons...
...print for the last dozen years, is the work of one Roger Poidatz. who as a young French cartographer in 1922 ended a two-year mission with the Japanese government and crammed his impressions of the country and the culture into his one and only book. Poidatz took his pen name Thomas Raucat from the Japanese tomar? ka, meaning "Will you stay the night here?", which when asked by a hotelkeeper takes on a double meaning. Though it has hints of a French boudoir farce scored for samisen, the novel's double meanings are mainly of another sort ? that...
...debating the proposal to establish Advanced Standing, these people had warned that the plan would burden the College with teenagers who were exceedingly intelligent but frightfully immature. Hearing of the 13-year-old freshman, the skeptics now recalled their predictions and asserted that the Yard was becoming a play pen for prodigies...