Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta pen went the late Huey Long's onetime social tutor and short-time political heir, bald Seymour Weiss, paroled after serving about half of his 30-month sentence for mail fraud...
...Rebecca West, I. A. R. Wylie. Last week the real author came out of hiding, proved to be Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General Yen), who had waited to declare herself till a daughter in Hungary had safely reached the U.S. Of her pen name (Ethel Vance), Authoress Stone explained she had chosen it because "it sounds like a name you were born with...
...motor gunboats and torpedo ships. But the British were well satisfied. On their farthest Commando raid of the war, they had, they were confident, knocked out the only Atlantic port big enough to drydock the battleship Tirpitz, the dock that had once held the once-mighty Normandie, the busiest pen for Nazi subs. The raid was soothing to Britain's invasion boosters, too. To many of them it seemed that the British brass hats were at last realizing the vulnerability of the 100-mile wide Brittany peninsula...
...Connor -announced he was quitting to join the Army. Britain's most detested, adored, vastly read gadfly thus said farewell: "I am still a comparatively young man and I propose to see whether the rifle is a better weapon than the printed word. Mr. Morrison can have my pen-but not my conscience. Mr. Morrison can have my silence-but not my self-respect...
...book of reminiscences, Past Imperfect (Doubleday, Doran; $3), broadcasting Actress Ilka Chase cut loose from the Nice Nellyism required by radio, let her pen run on without inhibitions. Sample (of her youthful meeting with Novelist George Moore): "Moore was a spindly-legged, pot-bellied, bejowled little man, and he unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose...