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Charles A. Lindbergh, in a week of plane crashes, took pen in hand to prove that, on a mileage basis, planes are safer than autos: "Why are there so many airline accidents? Because there is so much more flying...
...Manhattan, Macy's grabbed up 150,000 of them, burst forth one morning last week with ads offering to sell them for 98? apiece, or three for $2.79. Gimbels, which had been selling the pens for $3.85 only the day before, slashed the price next day to 94?, or three for $2.59. (To twit Macy's further, Gimbels snidely pointed out that its own 62 Bollero, "which we consider a far superior pen," was selling for 88?.) Macy's, having sold 68,000 Reynolds pens at 98? in a day, knocked off 10? more. Gimbels went...
...achieve its main objective--an elaborate yet faithful translation into celluloid of Maugham's best-seller of a few years back. But in this very success lies what is perhaps the film's greatest weakness; for stripped of all the shiny trappings of mysticism and profundity that a facile pen alone can put across, the story reduces itself to a basic substance which is, at most, pretty shadowy. It's really too bad that when the Hollywood moguls finally forgot about the kind of treatment they usually inflict upon a novel they couldn't have picked a story...
...play" side, of the desk. There he would find an electric refrigerator with three ice trays, a cabinet for bottles, decanters and glasses, a personal combination-lock safe. Properly fortified, the executive could return to the "business" side and to the desk's most dazzling feature: a magnetized pen holder. The executive need only place his pen close to the holder, let go and the magnet would suck the pen into place in the holder...
This week probably the most important chapter of that long career came from Stimson's pen, published in Harper's Magazine under the title The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. In it Stimson disclosed that: 1) he, more than any other man, was responsible for the decision to wipe out Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 2) the two bombs dropped were the only ones which the U.S. had in store at the time. He made the record explicit and complete...