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Miss Radcliffe will receive a Parker Pen and Pencil set from the Coop; a sweater from Corcorans'; jewelry from the Upper Story; an LP record from Minute-Man Radio Shop; a Harvard muffler from J. August; a print from the Behn-Moore Gallery; and a permanent free pass to the Brattle Theatre...
...Robert D. Howse, 46, who joined Waterman Pen Co., Inc. in May 1952 as executive vice president, moved up to the presidency last week. Yaleman Howse ('30) began his business career at Agfa-Ansco, later joined the Chicago management-engineering firm of Melvin J. Evans Co. In 1940 he became president of Argus, Inc., built up the company's sales from $1,000,000 to $10 million in ten years. In two years at Waterman, he has stepped up product research, modernized the manufacturing plant and revamped the sales organization. He brought out a sapphire-point pen...
Among writers, John O'London's Weekly was usually considered the leading literary magazine in the British empire. Born in 1919, it was named after the pen name of one of its early editors, and demonstrated with examples the best writing by great names and by young unknowns. Its readers were mostly young people just acquiring their literary education and oldsters belatedly seeking theirs, with a scattering of professional writers. The weekly ran a literate section on English grammar and word usage, carefully recommended good books, had a steady circulation of 80,000. When it rejected a manuscript...
...Secretariat, burst into the council chamber and sprayed the ministers with Sten-gun bullets ; General Aung San and six of his colleagues were killed, and nowhere in all Burma, it seemed, could experienced men be found to replace them. Unwillingly, a would-be playwright laid aside his pen. "I am glad to inform you," the British governor told the saddened land, "that Thakin Nu has agreed to form a new council...
...story of the Comstock. Once an Improper Bostonian, Beebe has long been fascinated with the West. In 1951 he settled down in Virginia City, and soon became publisher of the Territorial Enterprise and a full-time Westerner. Now he writes of his new home town with the same purple pen he used to describe Eastern gin-mills for the New York Herald Tribune: "The saloons of Virginia City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate enchantments were not latent in the mere roll call of their names, perfumed with intimate...