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...Hearst,* for instance, sometimes gives his pen hoodlums full freedom, releasing them from their chains in order to freely assault the Soviet people...
...perplexities of many of the scoffers left all but a few U.S. readers unmovedd. Main Street moved them. When it appeared (1920), U.S. readers swooped upon it with a cry of shocked delight, and made it their own. Gopher Prairie, first savagely repudiated and then eagerly claimed as the pen name for Lewis' birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minn., was a cartoon of all U.S. small towns slashed on in strokes broad enough to be unmistakable to the most reluctant. Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed simulacre of U.S. small-town types, at worst...
...Douglas MacArthur's show from beginning to end. At precisely 9:08 MacArthur stepped forward, removed a handful of fountain pens from his pocket. He started his signature, then handed the first pen to the gaunt soldier standing by his left shoulder. General Jonathan Wainwright saluted stiffly, accepted the pen, and stepped back. The next one went to Lieut. General Arthur E. Percival of Singapore...
Died. Sir Bernard Partridge, 83, mustachioed, meticulous, mid-Victorian chief cartoonist of Britain's famed Punch, who faithfully pen-& -inked 20th Century faces from Queen Victoria through the Kaiser (109 appearances) to Hitler (more than 120); in London...
...Milwaukee, the sentimental citizenry was buying 10,000 copies a week of a book of photographs (enlivened with scant text and pen sketches) called The Story of "Gertie"-all about a duck who hatched six eggs in the heart of the financial district while thousands cheered...