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Unit 4+2: Unit With The Crazy Nicknames

David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 27 March 1965

UNIT FOUR Plus 2. A bit cumbersome as a title? Ah, but remember the man who pioneered ball point pens in America just after World War II. He advertised them with the slogan "Writes under water" and everybody went around saying how ridiculous it was to plug a pen in that way — for who wants to write under water anyway?

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