Word: penned
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...dependence on Jan. 1, 1804, the illiterate Dessalines turned the task over to a patriot who declaimed that "to write the Act of Independence, we need the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet for a pen!" Dessalines made himself Emperor and slaughtered or exiled almost every white in Haiti...
When these words and about 2,300 others like them appeared in a letter sent last month by the 26-member General Council of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) to its 8,000' congregations, many a shocked Presbyterian-and many a non-Presbyterian-took pen in hand to write his protest. Last week, at a conference of Protestant home mission leaders at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., the Rev. Dr. Eugene C. Blake, the Northern Presbyterians' stated clerk (i.e., No. 2 official), stood up to defend the letter and add a few words...
...most famous son of Collodi, an outlying district of the Tuscan town of Pescia, was a mischievous, woodenheaded youngster named Pinocchio. Ever since Author Carlo Lorenzini, writing under the pen name of Carlo Collodi, created Pinocchio 73 years ago, the impish antics of the bad puppet who became a good boy have delighted children the world over. Two years ago, Pinocchio added another measure to his fame. Professor Rolando Anzilotti of the University of Florence defeated his Communist opponent in the race for mayor of Pescia by promising that, if elected, he would see to it that a suitable statue...
...Parker Pen Co., long knowing about the Man of the Year tradition, this year decided to produce .a television show about it. The show will be presented on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 6, from 5 to 6 (E.S.T.), on one of the biggest television hookups ever arranged. Called "The Man of the Year Revue," it will originate from NBC-TV in New York and will be telecast over more than a hundred stations. The program will focus on the newsmakers of this year, the statesmen, scientists, soldiers, the heroes and the villains who made the good and bad news, the history...
Fred M. Saigh, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, was paroled from the federal pen in Terre Haute, Ind. after serving six months of a 15-month stretch for evading income taxes...