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...Elmore's letter . . . moves me to pen a defense for Mrs. E. . . . I heartily agree that children are little brats and that having the unsolicited job of caring for them is frustrating, to say the least. I know, because I happen to have one who is unusually sweet and well-mannered by most standards of childhood behavior...
...Pen in Hand...
wrote the Empire's unwreathed laureate, Kipling, his pen quivering with...
...things Japanese unions do would make Tom Girdler scream for John L. Lewis. Japanese labor techniques grew out of the Japanese worker's effort to reconcile the paternalistic structure of Japan's industry with relatively alien class-struggle ideas. The labor-relations adventures of the Pilot Fountain Pen Co. is a microcosm of this effort...
With that statement, few would quarrel. What made it craziest was the fact that nothing could stop people from buying ball-points by the thousands, despite the fact that they 1) often failed to work (Reynolds alone got back 104,643 defective pens in his first eight months) or 2) oozed ink all over hands and paper. The ink in some pens even fermented, and blew the balls right out of the pens. But buyers kept right on coming. Said one bemused pen man: "They're like horse players. They figure they can beat the odds...