Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari. Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest editions--a collectors' item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meerschaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," a pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat...
Discouraged with American woman hood? Looking for the old country? Phillips Brooks House offers one and all the opportunity of correspondence with foreign students who have written to the University requesting "pen pals...
Behind Un Homme is a very real character: Claude-Henri Grignon, 52-year-old writer-producer. When he drops his pen, he becomes the quarrelsome mayor of Ste. Adele, in the Laurentians north of Montreal. There he bosses his 1,200 constituents, fights resort hotel owners for more taxes, butts his head against the steady advance of tourist commercialism which he fears will destroy Ste. Adele's joie de vivre. No one in the Laurentians hates city life more than Claude-Henri. For 15 years he was a failure in Montreal, writing acid critiques and a bad book. Then...
...other pen which will do so many amazing, extraordinary things . . . brand cattle, spotweld, etch letters in solid concrete, repel insects or strange men, cut cabs in two pieces, burn holes in any blanket, melt locks (throw away your keys), remove superfluous hair (no smelly, sticky wax or paste!), and call police cars on short wave (if the police don't call you first!). It may even write, for all we know! . . . And you have only nine more years to wait...
...opening gun of a $200,000 ad campaign, Inkograph Co., Inc., producers of $2, non-capillary pens, last week burlesqued the extravagant claims of ballpen makers. The claims had brought in the customers. Reynolds Pen Co., one of the most extravagant claimants and originator of a pen it calls the Rocket, last week reported a handsome net profit of $2,678,815 for the year. Are ball pens that good? Some might be (Eversharp reported a normal 3% on returns). But thousands of Reynolds buyers would answer: No. In its annual report, Reynolds noted that $110,000 had been...