Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andros Island, Axel Wenner-Gren, the Swedish tycoon (Electrolux vacuum cleaners, Bofors guns), has sunk $11 million in a long-range resort-and-home-building project. On the northern end of Andros, Parker Pen Co. Chairman Kenneth S. Parker is developing 8,500 acres of building and truck-gardening land. Louis R. Wasey, former ad agency executive (Erwin, Wasey & Co.), sold frs stockholdings in 1956 to concentrate on his Cat Cay Club, a heaven for well-heeled fishermen. Biggest venture of all is Freeport, a man-made harbor, industry site and bunkering installation 81 miles east of Palm Beach...
...Calif. to Bangor, Me. on charges ranging from drunkenness, vagrancy and assault to auto theft and draft dodging. He escaped from a Wisconsin reform school in 1938, from an Ohio jail in 1946, from a California industrial farm in 1950. Finally, he did 3½ years in the Wisconsin pen for raping a 17-year-old girl. Warden John C. Burke remembers him as "a real stinker...
...Lower Depths. In Columbus, the Ohio Penitentiary News published an editorial denouncing intramural thefts of razors, shaving lotion, a Parker "51" pen, deodorant sticks, chopped ham, talcum powder, radio plugs, shave sticks and a pair of gloves, said: "We are appealing to each inmate to help eliminate these low-type characters that are in our midst...
Another Year. Once a week Hamlett presides at an informal evening meeting that can eventually turn into either a jazz séance or a bull session. He has led his youngsters off on hamburger picnics, taught them U.S. dance steps, set them to collecting stamps and writing to pen pals in America. Now and then he rents a bus and carts the young Berbers off to fabled Fez, 50 miles to the North, to hear an American singer or lecturer who is passing through. Not long ago he ordered a shipment of hardball equipment, then gloomily canceled the order...
...customers have proved willing to pay $200 to $1,000, which Tinguely asks for his moving abstractions. But Tinguely has a new gadget, which harnesses one of his machines to a crayon or pen. When a slug is dropped in the slot, the machine traces circles, ellipses and swirls on a piece of paper. A friend is manufacturing the slugs, each marked "Good for One Tinguely." At his next exhibition, visitors will be invited to buy the slugs at perhaps 500 francs apiece. For a mere 5,000 francs more, Tinguely will consent to sign the result...