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...company's sales from $1,000,000 to $10 million in ten years. In two years at Waterman, he has stepped up product research, modernized the manufacturing plant and revamped the sales organization. He brought out a sapphire-point pen and last week introduced the Waterman C/F, a nib-point pen that is filled with a cartridge, like a ball point; Howse says it "will put growth back into the fountain-pen business." Howse succeeds Frank D. Waterman, 50, a grandnephew of the founder, who becomes board chairman...
...village priest, Don Abbondio, for example, is no stock cleric of the sort Balzac rolled off his nib, but the full-length portrait of a weak, well-meaning man of the world, truckling where he has to, lording it where he can, glad to do a kindness if you'll wait till after supper, parish-wise and heaven-foolish all day long. The wicked nun is not simply wicked, but a believable wretch who got that way partly through her own vanity, partly because she was hideously tricked by her father into a life she had no call...
...NIB TOURNAMENT...
Hook. In Texarkana, Ark., Dr. J. A. Little golfed to the shallow part of a water hazard, took a healthy swing, nib-licked high & dry one four-pound bass...
...have submitted to him in the morning's Udienze di Tabella, then prepares any speeches he may have to make. He jots down pencil notes which he later expands on the typewriter. When he is forced to use ink (he dislikes fountain pens), he uses a very fine nib...