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...Quiz shows that replace crooked quiz shows may be regarded as fair game for crooks: televiewers from New York, Massachusetts and Virginia have already used pen, paste pot and scissors in an effort to break the bank on Top Dollar, CBS replacement for Dotto (see above). Since the show promised up to $5,000 for dollar bills bearing certain serial numbers, the light-fingered operators altered other serial numbers in order to qualify. All they won was a Secret Service warning that repetition might bring them an alternate prize: up to 15 years in prison and a $5.000 fine...
Togetherness. In Anamosa, Iowa, Gary Lee Wessling, 17, asked to be transferred from the Men's Reformatory in Anamosa to the State Penitentiary in Fort Madison so he could serve his 30-year stretch in the same pen where...
...like the Scottishness of Blair or the Norseness of Eric, took Orwell as his pen name from an English river he loved...
...Ceylonese speaker, Samson Wijesinha, a lawyer, gave credit to Britain which "with one stroke of the pen turned discontented subjects into equals and friends" when it granted independence to Ceylon...
...each age I have found a home: I was swaddled in immortality and time was my play-pen. Men burned candles at my altar--in religion, poetry, the sciences. All the professions engendered their terms, and the terms became symbols, and the symbols grew into myths, and the myths became legends. And the legends were allegories, teaching the racial wisdom...