Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordered returned by the U.S. to famed World War I Draft Dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, now in the Army pen at Fort Leavenworth: $169,079.71, seized from him in 1921 by the Alien Property Custodian. The money had been held till Bergdoll paid back income taxes of more than...
...MOVING FINGER-Agatha Christie -Dodd, Mead ($2). Grey-haired Miss Marple, whose innocent face conceals a good deal of criminal knowledge and detecting skill, stops her knitting long enough to present the puzzled police with the solution of a poison-pen plot that leads to suicide and murder. A smoothly flowing and flawlessly constructed story...
...this Point, the Parsimonious Freshman threw away his pencil and paper, seized his fountain Pen and Check Book, and at once made out his subscription for the following year...
Artist is Neysa McMein (magazine covers), who has never worked with pen and ink before. Her first attempt is nothing extra, as comics go, but it will probably satisfy the customers. Says Artist McMein: "I despair of ever getting out the front door again. Why, they say these things sometimes go on for as long as 22 years...
Once more John L. Lewis has proved himself God's gift to the professional labor-baiter. West-brook Pegler can now re-fill his fountain pen and Carl Vinson re-wag his Senatorial tongue, for the President of the United Mine Workers has chosen to defeat Hitler by leading his 2,800 members...