Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospects-and taking a special new interest in Michigan's Governor George Romney. In Michigan, Governor Romney talked with Detroit Correspondent Ben Cate, and held meticulously to his position that he is not a candidate. But one of his aides, in a moment of enthusiasm, looked at a pen inscribed "Governor George Romney" and cracked to Cate: "At night it lights up and says George Romney for President...
Along with the Coca-Cola bottle, the Singer sewing machine and the Willys Jeep, the Parker pen ranks as one of the best-known symbols...
around the world. Parker's shapely"51" pens signed the Japanese and the German surrender agreements after World War II, the Korean cease-fire at Panmunjom and the Japanese Peace Treaty. Truman, Attlee and Stalin used a Parker to sign the Potsdam agreement, and Khrushchev flew home with a sup ply of Parkers after his shoe-slapping U.N. visit three years ago. In develop ing nations, where the fight against il literacy is constantly creating the need for more pens, a Parker pen is one of the status symbols of the educated...
...Parker Pen Co. of Janesville, Wis., is busy taking advantage of this worldwide renown with a lively spirit that belies its 75 years. It deliberately ignores national boundaries in its planning, now does two-thirds of its busi ness overseas in 156 nations. "We are a company of the world which happens to have its headquarters in the U.S.," says President Daniel Parker, 38, the grandson of Founder George Parker...
Lucky Curve. Founder George Par ker was a telegraphy teacher back in 1888 when he became tired of the primitive fountain pens of the day and invented a pen of his own. His business surged after he developed the "lucky curve" -a curved ink-feeding device that prevented ink from leaking when the pen was stored upright in a user's pocket. He kept adding technical improvements, caught the public fancy with such gimmicks as the showy orange and black Duofold pen that be came the raccoon coat of the pen indus try in the 1920s, and soon...