Religion: Endorser Up & Out

"There's no question, Mr. Waterman, that a person buying a fountain pen will find it decidedly advantageous to make the Waterman's 7-point Test, especially if he or she values genuine writing comfort and the aid that the right point contributes to fluent expression of thought."

That was what bag-jowled Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, voluble Brooklyn Congregationalist, was supposed to be saying in an advertisement which appeared in The Literary Digest and the Christian Herald last month. Photographed with Penman Frank Dan Waterman, he appeared to have sampled seven different pen-points and selected the...

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