Word: penning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York streets. A plumber, on music: "I mean to me when there's music I'll stop anything; without music, I mean I don't think there'd be life-there would be no world.'' A Times Square pitchman selling a pen: "If my physiognomy is not too conspicuous to be comprehended, I'm gonna clarify . . . You can write Yiddish, you can write English, you can print, you can sketch with this very same pen...
...will of English-born Doggerelist Robert W. Service, dead at 85 last year in Monte Carlo, disclosed last week that in succumbing to The Spell of the Yukon (published in 1907), Service successfully mined a heap of gold with his pen. His net estate...
...Smithie (class of '59), has a pleasant and natural voice, but more striking is her versatility of dramatic expression. In one scene, she coos sweetly over the new-born babe as the group sings "Virgin Mary Had a Little Baby," and in a subsequent number, she brandishes a mean pen-knife in a rowdy rendition of "Union Maid." Although 3 Folk Sing is nominally a trio, there is also a fourth, Paul Prestopino, a talented instrumentalist who accompanies the others. With his black beard and black-rimmed glasses, he provides added flavoring to the "Family of Man" atmosphere...
...preserve a truce with
the Deliverers. Most of this went to Harold Gross, a convicted labor
extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo
Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945,
after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a
Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross
engineer the shakedown.
...More Fun. There she lives alone in a two-room apartment over the school. The one thing she leaves to others is cooking. In the office she usually dictates letters, though she has learned to write-far more legibly than most people with normal hands-with a special pen hooked to her stump. Dr. Carlsen attends conventions all over the country, traveling easily by plane or train if it is too far to drive. But driving she loves, in a car with special controls, like those for handicapped veterans. "It's the only thing I'm proud...