Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found time for everyone. Round-the-world Flyer Milton Reynolds and crew (see BUSINESS) came by to receive the President's congratulations and give him a Reynolds ball-point pen. Democratic bigwigs dropped in to talk politics. Said Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague: "Everything's fine-everything's lovely...
...Chin, also a statesman, fell into imperial disfavor, was made drunk and entombed under a bank of snow. Tu Fu admired his own admirable verse so much that he recommended it for malarial fever. Fang Shu Shao, knowing his time had come, got into his coffin and wrote: "My pen and ink shall go with me inside my funeral hearse, so that if I've leisure 'over there' I may soothe myself with verse...
...chief actor in this story-a gaunt, red-haired Californian whose pen name is Harold Maine-last week published his autobiography (If a Man Be Mad, Doubleday; $3). It is a sobering account, not only of a drunkard's inner agonies, but of U.S. mental hospitals...
...best of these jingles are such a neat blend of humor, whimsey and corn that they seemed to come from the pen of an old master. Not so. The nearest thing in Burma-Vita to an old master is the man who started them, and the company as well-Allan Gilbert Odell, 42, the athletic vice president and sales manager of the company. He devoted so much of his youth to basketball and football that he acquired a thorough interest in liniments. By the time he graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1925, he decided to produce and market...
...latest book to from from Conant's pen, "On Understanding Science" approaches its subject historically. The lives and work of leading scientists from the time of Aristotle to the atomic age are explored, to bring the reader a better appreciation of what research is and how he can understand it. Conant believes that no man is equipped to play a part in the world today without a knowledge of the basic principles and achievements of science...