Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walla Walla, Wash., a week after Francis Drake got a suspended sentence for petty larceny and a dollar in cash from benign Judge T. A. Paul, he turned up in court on a forgery charge, explained that he had used the court's dollar to buy a fountain pen...
...Davids on exhibition in Paris last week had been gathered from all over France, from Belgium, and Manhattan. To prepare for the show, experts had spent almost a year cleaning the dun varnish from French canvases, restoring to them the clear bright colors David had intended. His pen-drawing of Marie-Antoinette on her way to the guillotine, which David was cool enough and history-minded enough to sketch on the spot, was an unassuming example of his naturally incisive draftsmanship and genius for portraiture...
...Novelist Evelyn Waugh has pointed out, the bare bones of this story might just as well have come from the pen of France's murky thriller-writer, Georges Simenon, or from mysticky W. Somerset Maugham, or even from a Hollywood scripter ("One can imagine . . . Miss Bacall's pretty head lolling on the stretcher . . .") But needless to say, it is the flesh and mind, not the skeleton, that make The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most ambitious book...
Above Water. Eversharp Inc. (ball pen), which lost $3,416,985 last year (TIME, May 24), was once more able to total its earnings above water. In the first quarter ended May 31, Chairman Martin L. Straus II reported last week, Eversharp netted $318,618 after taxes...
...Woman, Louis Guilloux described a quarrel between a businessman and his wife-a quarrel which is hair-raising precisely because it is caused by nothing but sheer boredom. In his two contributions, Jean-Paul Sartre, France's latest light-o'-letters, fills his fountain pen with embalming fluid and blandly describes 1) how reasonable it is these days for a woman to be madly in love with a lunatic, 2) how inevitable it is that a man will get killed if you try to save his life...