Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Magic Trifle. Bell Laboratory has a two-stage transistor amplifier, complete with resistors and condensers, that is potted in a cylinder of plastic as big as a ¾-inch section cut from a fountain pen. When a faint voice current is fed to this trifle, it gives a signal loud enough to blast the eardrum. Scores of such amplifiers could be packed in a coffee can. One device at Bell has transistors that do the work of 44 vacuum tubes. The whole thing is housed on a panel no bigger than the page of a novel...
...among California lettuce growers as the wife of an unbelievably naive Korean War veteran (Don Taylor). To Taylor's surprise, the folks at home do not warm up readily to his bride. She is patronized, insulted, finally slandered by a jealous in-law (Marie Windsor) in a poison-pen letter accusing her of an affair with a local Nisei farmer...
...Hindu epics, and wrote the first 60 volumes of a 180-volume biography of the Hindu god Krishna. One day last October he cried out: "He nath Narayan!" (meaning, "Oh, Lord God," the holy man's only departure from silence). An attendant brought him his Shaeffer fountain pen and paper. He wrote: "If today I participate in an election, it's because my innermost voice bids...
...months in the state penitentiary in 1939 for forgery. And Ward's racing stable, with which he had made a great hit with the local horsy set, was actually owned by Colorado's big-time gambler O. E. ("Smiling Charlie") Stephens, whom Ward had met in the pen. Reporter Phillips turned up another interesting fact: Ward was paying a $500 a month "consultant" fee to Lester Hall, executive vice president of U.S. National Bank, which had made him his biggest loans...
...formal schooling stopped at 16. Sloan was a poor boy with an itch to make pictures but without much obvious talent ("My sisters and I all drew equally well"). To support himself, Sloan designed calendars and valentines, sold pen & ink copies of Rembrandt etchings. At 21 he went to work for the Philadelphia Inquirer, making on-the-spot news sketches of fires, elections, suicides and parades. The job helped him develop drawing facility, and gave him a down-to-earth philosophy of art: "An artist is a spectator...