Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened before, and it was happening again last week. An obscure man whose only tools were his brain and his pen was shaping the minds of men who shape the world. Winston Churchill had made one of this man's books "must" reading for the British War Cabinet and for Dominion Premiers who visited London last May. British liberals, scorned and derided by this man, had risen against him. A later book by the same man had just begun to make a stir...
...Washington Times-Herald picks up most of the bitterly anti-Roosevelt editorials and cartoons spawned by her brother Joe's New York Daily News and her cousin Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune. They rarely pick up any of hers. When 59-year-old "Cissie" takes pen in hand, the result is likely to be so rancorous that it shocks even a well-blunted masculine sense of fair play...
Franklin Roosevelt lobbed the weekly quota of hopeful political questions back high and easy, like a bull pen catcher on a hot afternoon. Then Elizabeth May Craig of Maine newspapers, famed among correspondents for her unabashed demeanor at Presidential press conferences, fogged one over in her come-out-and-fight soprano: "Mr. President, would you care to say whether you think Governor Dewey would make a strong opponent...
...concerns the tiny English hamlet of Bramley End and its two-day seizure by four planeloads of German paratroopers disguised as four lorry-loads of British engineers. Unmasked by Nora Ashton (Valerie Taylor), sweetheart of Community Leader Oliver Wilsford (Leslie Banks), who is really a fifth columnist, the Germans pen the villagers in the church...
Virgil Franklin Partch 2nd became a cartoonist because he wanted to make a living sitting down. Last week, 28-year-old Cartoonist Partch (pen name: VIP) was sitting pretty. He was a regular Collier's contributor of two years' standing, he had a fat commercial advertising contract, and his first book of comic drawings, It's Hot in Here (McBride; $1) was selling fast in U.S. bookstores...