Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mauldin's pen & ink infantrymen from Stars & Stripes were a biting commentary on the long-suffering dogfaces of World War II. By surrounding Willie and Joe with a threadbare plot and substituting slapstick for the original's realism, Back at the Front succeeds in making Willie and Joe look more like two-dimensional comic-strip characters than they ever have before...
...Pen Pointed. In Mt. Clemens, Mich., police swiftly cracked a case when Daniel Chalfont stole a $56 check from a stranger's mailbox, endorsed it with the payee's name but absentmindedly wrote his own address...
...from the assembled crowd. At Lapeer, the next stop, the train again pulled out before Ike could speak, then halted some distance off, where Ike and Mamie began to sign autographs. As the train started up for the second time, Ike caught Mamie in the act of handing a pen down to an autograph-seeker and cried out in anguish: "No, no, Mamie. That's my pen...
...Duce's tame intellectual, a pet journalist of Fascism, who, as special correspondent for Milan's Corriere delta Sera, was fed rich scoops of news on the silver spoon of favoritism. When the war began to turn against the Axis, so did Malaparte's pen. He was punished with brief confinement in a Rome prison, then allowed to retire to a Capri villa; there he was liberated by the Allied forces. Malaparte promptly put all his inside information about high Fascist circles at the disposal of the Allied command, and was rewarded with a commission as liaison...
...reputedly borrowed his "O. Henry" pen name from Orrin Henry, a guard at Ohio State penitentiary, where Porter served three years and three months in the '903 for embezzlement of bank funds...