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...shook my head and looked around the office. The walls were lined with photographs of his numerous before-after triumphs. A red bottle, a green bottle and a pale yellow bottle were ranged artistically along his desk, and a brush in a plastic stand took the place of a pen on his blotter...
...suppose it is useless to reply to your editorial of today and we might as well acknowledge the power of the pen vs. the sword or at any rate its strategic location. However, in the interests of keeping the record straight the following is submitted...
...bustled over to the State Department and signed the now standard Mutual Military Assistance Agreement* with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a ceremony which lasted 3½ minutes. ("Well, that's all there is to it," Dulles was heard to mutter as he put down his pen and stood...
...Star State is the biggest, richest, toughest and most cultured in the land, with the prettiest women; Texans learn all this at their mothers' knees. But last week, in a free-swinging, heavy-handed piece of low humor, Esquire (circ. 819,000) took exception. The article, under the pen name Bernard Dorrity and the title "Let's Secede from Texas," described the state as a "geographical hemorrhoid." Its cotton land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk." If Texas women...
...most of the time. But every now & then, doctors have a case in which a patient has no memory for names at all-not even the names of close kin. It may get so bad that he forgets the names of common articles, so that when he wants a pen he will ask for "something to write with," though he can pick the right name out of a list. Nerve specialists have given this complaint a number of names; the University of Virginia's Dr. Cary Suter. who has studied it closely, likes "anomic aphasia" best...