Word: sheaffer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowds passing through the display saw copies of Ronson and Zippo lighters, Sheaffer and Parker pens, Bell & Howell movie projectors, Leica cameras, Esterbrook desk-pen sets, Revere Ware copper-bottomed saucepans, even a West German B.M.W. motorcycle. Some Japanese copies were so precise the parts were even interchangeable with foreign products. "There would be many more complaints if people only realized the full extent of the copying," said one trade official. "American electrical appliance makers may be due for an early shock. Japanese appliance manufacturers are rapidly nearing the stage of technical proficiency where facsimile copies will be possible...
...fall are Studio One, Climax!, Kraft Theater and Matinee Theater. There was one particularly noisy survivor-a stubby, pugnacious man named David Susskind, 37. Producer Susskind has 25 live drama spectaculars lined up for next season, including seven for Du Pont, seven for Rexall, two for Sheaffer Pen. This is nearly twice as many as any other packager; and, with his bi-weekly Armstrong Circle Theater, Susskind next year may well be producing a good third of the major live-drama output of the entire industry...
...Other members: Commerce's Frank W. Sheaffer, San Francisco Importer James S. Baker, and William H. Lukens of R. M. Hollingshead Corp., Camden...
...Andy Sheaffer, the hero, is a goldbrick long before he gets to the induction center. His gentlemanly marks at U.C.L.A. are designed to "keep the draft board happy without exciting envy and jealousy among my schoolmates." Andy figures he can work the student ploy right through law school and tool past the draft-age barrier of 26, preferably in his cozy little MG. But he underestimates the power of a woman. His girl Susan cannot stand a slacker. Or as she puts it to Andy: "Everything with you is cotton candy." The Cotton Candy Kid is so flummoxed by this...
...training cycle's end, Andy marries Susan and gets picked as a cadreman to train incoming recruits. "I'm a hard man but a fair one," he tells them. "If you screw it up, your behinds are grass, and Sergeant Sheaffer is the lawnmower...