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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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Innocents at Home | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

And the fans will see for themselves when the curtain goes up on "Old Faces of 1953-4" at 8:30 tonight. Also present will be the B.U. critics with an axe to grind and the newspaper critics with bated breath and baited pens, looking and hoping for the best...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: 'Old Faces of 1953-4' | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

¶ To describe the "dip-free" Sheaffer Snorkel pens in South Africa, Grant had to find a substitute for dip (doop), which means "baptize" in Afrikaans.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Hucksters Abroad | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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