Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, ten months and three days after the outbreak of war in Korea, the U.S. last week wrote an end to an earlier Pacific campaign which had carried the nation's hopes of peace in the Far East. With a plastic fountain pen from his desk set, President Harry Truman scratched his signature to the peace treaty with Japan and wrote in the date: April 15, 1952-just ten years, four months and eight days after Pearl Harbor...
...sunset supper in McKinlock courtyard followed by a formal dance in recreated Okefenokee Swamp (Leverett's Dining Hall) caps the day for the long-earred citizens. Called the Pogo Fish Fry and Stomp, the dance should feature Walt Kelly, Pogo's pen man, who will christen a life-size statue of Albert the Alligator, according to festivity officials. Kelly has promised the dance committee he'd try to attend the ball...
First prize, a portable Smith-Corona typewriter went to Cavin P. Leeman '52. Roger A. Pomeroy '55 won the second prize, a $20 Shaeffer pen set. Third prize, a free typewriter overhaul, was awarded to three people, John deBruynkops, III '53, Alden C. Davis '52, and Linette Peter '54. Fourth prize winner Richard C. Spelman '53 really hit the jackpot, winning 100 pounds of ice to be shipped anywhere in the United States...
...last decade. Even students dedicated to unraveling the symbolism of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake will lift their noses and loose an excited bay if Traven's name is drawn across the conversation. And if, as now seems pretty certain (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948), B. Traven is the pen name of Chicago-born Berick Traven Torsvan Torsvan, 58, a shy recluse who has lived in Mexico since 1913 and runs a restaurant near Acapulco, Traven is at last in the same position as any other novelist; his fame must depend on the qualities that show up in his work...
...popular songs (The Miracle of the Bells, When I Take My Sugar to Tea, By a Waterfall')', of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Teaneck, NJ. Pastor (since 1947) of St. Joseph of the Palisades Church, West New York, N. J., "Father Joe" wrote popular songs under the pen name Pierre Norman, under his own name wrote a mass in the Gregorian style. A member of ASCAP (American Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers) for more than 25 years, he gave royalties from his music to needy parishes...