Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blackmail. The East's response was not pen notes but pinpricks. The incidents were small: e.g., West Germans were refused interzone passes to Berlin because "American imperialists are trying to split Germany"; British and U.S. patrols were temporarily barred from the no-mile stretch of Autobahn linking Berlin to West Germany. But each pinprick seemed to fit into an ominous Soviet stencil. The Reds were giving West Germans a glimpse of what might happen if they turn down the Soviet offer of "unity." Huffed Walter Ulbricht, East German Deputy Premier: "The day the peace contract is signed, West Berlin...
...Kirby, who had studied under Whistler in Paris, regarded himself as a failure as an artist when Friend Franklin P. Adams ("F.P.A.") got him a cartooning job on the old New York Evening Mail in 1911. His pen editorials soon proved too sharp-pointed for the ultra-conservative Mail and his liberal ideas quickly got him fired from the conservative New York Sun. When he joined Pulitzer's crusading New York World in 1913, Kirby found a world...
...poison pen pals of the U.S., who began smearing Ike Eisenhower more or less covertly before the New Hampshire primary, were hard at work last week on an around-the-clock, coast-to-coast basis. In Washington, Los Angeles, Seattle, St. Louis, Chicago and New York, the smudgy little dodgers, the slick pamphlets and the "confidential" newsletters oozed a campaign of character assassination such as the U.S. has not seen since the 1928 campaign against Alfred E. Smith...
...Chase (by Horton Foote) was Producer-Director-Actor José Ferrer's bid for five Broadway hits in a row.* But The Chase proves too much for him-or rather, too little. Laid in Texas, it tells of a violent killer who breaks out of the pen, and of a small-town sheriff's fierce efforts to recapture him without having to kill him or let the townspeople string him up. Since the desperado is almost more anxious to bump off the sheriff than to make a getaway, the situation is fairly knotty...
...Pen name of the late Walter Ben Hare of the Phoenix, Ariz. Weather Bureau...