Take Pen In Hand

October, 1960

Take Pen in HandThough it is still sold in most department and drug stores for prices ranging from a modest fifty cents to a staggering {250, the fountain pen has been replaced as a common writing instrument by the ubiquitous ballpoint.The ballpoint is a wonder of the age. It is efficient, inexpensive, easy to obtain, and nothing has ever existed that is better for filling out documents with carbons attached. It writes under water, under pressurization, and on top of Scotch tape and the seventy-...