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...quick, little one!" Willy would cry, as Colette chased her pen through Claudine upon Claudine. If Colette was lazy or restive, Willy locked her in her room. Every page she wrote passed under Willy's practiced editorial eye ("Have I married the last of the lyric poets?" he would snarl, if the prose was sappy). By 1904, Colette was a trained craftsman-and fed up with the life of a tormented hack. At 31, after twelve years of marriage, Colette broke with Willy...
PAPER-MATE PEN CO., which sold $20 million of ball points in 1953 (at 97? and $1.69 retail), will invade the quality market with a $15, gold-filled gift model by October...
...eager hands thrust fountain pens toward the big, swarthy man at the head of the velvet-covered table. Grinning, he dug into a pocket for his own pen, then scribbled his initials on the sheet of paper before him. Suddenly it was over and the room exploded into mad applause; the watching throng-soldiers, government officials, reporters-crowded in to pound his back and plant kisses on his cheek...
...wasn't on June 17, 1876, that "you fellows beat General Custer." The President was wrong. Custer's last stand at the Little Big Horn was on June 25, 1876; his adversaries were the Sioux. The three Indians, nervously eying the President's still-poised pen, hurriedly denied all connection with the massacre...
...whose retirement in 1932 has given him time to mull, skimmed through magazines and newspapers. His prize cliché: the phrase claiming world supremacy. In Tide last week, he listed 52. Among them: "World's most widely used sound-conditioning materials" (Celotex); "World's most personal fountain pen" (Ester-brook); "World's greatest show of guaranteed values for home" (Fruit of the Loom); "World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World's most advanced refining developments" (Mobilgas); "World's largest cordage laboratory" (Plymouth); "World's largest-selling denture...