Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper stayed white, her pen still empty. She can't get the weekend's flavor and idly, dreams instead. She doesn't wish for Eliot House, Italian food, tag football, or the Philharmonic. And she isn't thinking of Monday's tests. Some Sunday spirit has whisked her away...
Gambler Frank Costello, 62, was sprung from the federal pen in Milan, Mich., after serving 14½ months of his 18-month sentence for contempt of Congress. Although Costello got time cut off his stretch for good behavior, he was no sooner out of the prison gate than he was in trouble again. Pursued by a carload of persistent newsmen, he ordered his chauffeur to step on the gas. sent his black Cadillac hurtling along the 45 miles to Detroit at 80 m.p.h. (Michigan speed limit: "Reasonable and proper"). Twice overtaken by the reporters, Frank croaked peevishly: "Will you fellows...
...critic's "livid" might have been a slip 'twixt the pen and the press; nevertheless, his little bundle of skillfully modulated sesquipedalian (or is it sesqui-pedantic?) phrases is a stodgy example of journalism uninhibited by idiomatic terminology. Sydney H. Sohanberg '55 Robert A. Spangler...
...months ago, when Sergeant Wilkins, 28, came out through Panmunjom and Freedom Village, he had a list of 3,272 fellow prisoners as potential customers. As soon as he could get pen and paper, he sent the names and addresses to his old employer. Hanson Chevrolet sent out 2,000 letters offering the sergeant's friends a $300 "Wilkins discount" on a new car, urged them to come to Detroit to pick it up. Last week the company announced that 21 ex-prisoners have already done so (one former colonel came all the way from Georgia...
...York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, who yields to few men in his use of savage political invective, last week turned his pen to a matter far from politics. In the midst of the angry nationwide editorial and public uproar over the kidnaping and murder of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Columnist O'Donnell gave his recommendations for the type of punishment needed to fit the crime. Wrote O'Donnell: "Cruel and unusual punishment [for these criminals], as prolonged as medical skill can accomplish, and as ferocious and merciless as tales of ancient...