Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wait a minute," said Schulberg, "These kids have seen 'Waterfront." The producer and Miss Gardner must have been unimpressed, however, for they had, already grabbed their coats and were escorting the author out the door. A Dartmouth student standing nearby had taken out a pen to get the visitor's autography. But before he could say anything, Schulberg and his companions, without a backward glance, had disappeared among the ice statues of Fraternity...
Atlanta's Scripto, Inc. last week put a new pencil on the market that looks like a lead pencil but writes like a ball-point pen. The writing agent is a capsule of liquid graphite which can be erased, although not as quickly or cleanly as lead. Price: 49?; refill capsules...
With his new pencil, Scripto President James Vinson Carmichael got the jump on the Parker Pen Co., which ballyhooed its own graphite pencil last month but will take "about 90 days" before beginning distribution...
...governor against Herman E. Talmadge, and was beaten under the state's county unit system, although he won the popular vote. After that, he joined Scripto as assistant to the president. A year later he became president, started the company expanding rapidly with ball-point pens, became the second biggest ball-point pen maker (behind Los Angeles' Paper-Mate) and the biggest mechanical pen and pencil maker...
...Pen Pals. In Taipei, Formosa, hoping to get rich on stamps, Chao Chun, 31, placed a newspaper ad reading, "Attractive widow of 25, high-school graduate, seeks husband; send photo, personal history and stamps for reply," got 5,000 bids, was finally turned over to police when disgruntled suitors came around to see why they were receiving no replies...