Word: pense
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago, fat Fuad Serag el Din was one of Egypt's masters. He planted his bulk firmly behind a huge desk equipped with seven phones, four squawk-boxes, three fountain pens and a mound of specially rolled, bat-sized Havanas, and bossed the secret police as Interior...
Not one to be cowed by people in high places, Evie is outspoken on her column's cast of characters (the British: "They bore me:" the Italians: "Dull"). She does not pretend to cover Washington society completely, since "I really haven't got time for Congress." Good Business...
Discount houses will soon find detectives checking up on their activities. The W. A. Shaeffer Pen Co. has hired three agencies (Burns, Pinkerton, Willmark) to find out how discount men get hold of Shaeffer pens (some $125,000 worth in 1953) to sell below Fair Trade minimums.
PARKER Pen Co., last big holdout against ballpoint pens, will finally bow to the trend. After nine years of experiment, it will bring out its first ballpoint this week, for $2.75. The company claims it will give 60 hours of writing (v. 14 for most other pens) without replacing the...
One successful fund-raiser in New York's Westchester County reckoned that he and his family would realize $75,000 this year for operating half a dozen smalltime charities. Another admitted he had posed as a priest and a policeman in telephone soliciting. In The Bronx, six "nuns" in...