Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniel Parker, 35, became president and chief executive officer of Parker Pen Co., replacing Bruce M. Jeffris, the only non-Parker to hold the job, who becomes board chairman. Dan Parker is the grandson of George Parker, who founded the firm in 1888, and son of Kenneth Parker, who was board chairman until last month. Daniel Parker has been groomed for the top spot at Parker since boyhood. A Marine 2nd lieutenant in World War II. he attended Harvard Business School, joined the company in 1949 and was put in charge of foreign operations. Handsome and hardworking, he often arrives...
...corn, swam to the Ohio shore and pushed back watermelons, set trotlines for catfish and trapped muskrats for the local doctor, who was an abortionist and fur dealer on the side. For a while he had as partner a deaf ex-moonshiner who had done a stretch in the pen, and from him he got a recipe for making corn likker that is one of the highlights of the book...
...Violence is not only that of pistols and fists; that of the pen is more dangerous." -Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi
...Bruce M. Jeffris, president of Parker Pen Co. (1959 sales: $38 million), took over as chief executive officer as Board Chairman Kenneth Parker. 65, retired. Jeffris, 64, is the first chief executive outside the Parker family, but he is not expected to hold the distinction for long. Harvard-educated Daniel Parker, 35, grandson of the firm's founder, is now executive vice president, only a step away from the presidency...
...Texas' Omar Burleson, an ex-FBI agent and chairman of the purse-string Committee on House Administration, bought $86.45 worth of doodads (pen set, calendar-pad holder, etc.) for his office in Abilene, charged it off to his committee, even though he had received a specific $1,200 allowance for office supplies. On another occasion, Burleson traveled 1,128 miles by car to investigate "election matters" in Texas (his own district included), charged the trip off at 10? a mile...