Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years. Jack Romagna, a civil servant who works in Washington, suffered from a recurrent nightmare. In his dream Romagna sat at the elbow of the President of the U.S., transcribing in shorthand a presidential address. But for some reason. Romagna's pen moved without leaving a mark. And as the President talked on, his unrecorded words were lost forever...
Even so, Romagna's nimble pen-a needlepoint Sheaffer Snorkel that writes in violet ink-followed Kennedy's long-distance dash with a fidelity that both the White House and the White House press corps have come to trust. When Kennedy went down to Latin America last week with a batch of speech texts in hand, Romagna went along too; he accurately transcribed not only the slightest presidential departure from the script, but Kennedy's impromptu remarks at public receptions along the route. "Keeping the press happy is my prime objective," says Romagna. "Keeping the official file...
Seasickness v. Bach. To gird for the New Frontier. Romagna endlessly replayed tapes of the Kennedy-Nixon TV debates, worked up an assortment of new shorthand symbols to fit New Frontier talk. One graceful jiggle of the Romagna pen, for example, expands into 13 words...
Part of the recent widespread effort of historians to compile source material on the great 18th century Americans,* the two Hamilton volumes are primarily intended for the use of other historians, and like other such collections are choked with trivia. But Hamilton's pen is so sharp and blunt by turn that the letters, notes and official papers, assembled by Editors Syrett and Cooke, contain surprisingly lively material for the nonhistorian, and certain sections read like an epistolary novel...
Write Me a Murder, by Frederick Knott, gives its killer a pen with which to sign his own death warrant, and after some fancy scalp tingling, he does...