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...brief notice of the appropriation in the Boston Globe stirred little comment until City Councillor Frederick Langone spoke out about it. "Curley never sat on a bench in his life," Langone cried. He should have something "more dignified." In reply, one William E. O'Halloran of Newtonville took pen in hand and tongue in cheek. A mere $65,000 was "not nearly enough," O'Halloran opined in the Boston Globe's letters column. But there is another way that "will cost us nothing and accomplish much." Concluded O'Halloran: "There is no longer any viable reason...
Drawing styles themselves range from Jeffrey Hale's which in Blind Man's Buff veers as close to Saturday morning cartoons as Center Screen gets, to Maureen Sherwood's freehand pen-and-ink for her Sempre Libera. John Canemaker's Confessions of a Stardreamer has the quick sketch and metamorphos is that keeps the cliches of the jaded actress on the soundtrack alive...
...dissatisfied because you did not see your uncle Einstein. Let me therefore tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny beginning of a paunch. In addition an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth-if he happens to have a cigar-and a pen in his pocket or his hand. But crooked legs and warts he does not have, and so he is quite handsome ... It is indeed a pity that...
...pen uses a heavy blue ink that has many of the same properties as rub ber cement (refills are available in black and red). About 100 times thicker than honey, it is contained in a cartridge in the pen's barrel, which is pressured with a charge of nitrogen gas; the gas forces the ink onto the pen's ballpoint when it is pressed against a surface. In effect, an antigravity pen, it can be used in any position. The writing can be rubbed out with an ordinary eraser up to several days later; thereafter the ink fully...
...This defeats the whole purpose of ink." Indeed, mindful of the question of permanent records and forgeries, Paper Mate consulted the American Bankers Association, which advised that a cautionary note be printed on every Eraser Mate package. The message warns buyers "not to sign or endorse checks" with the pen...