The classroom of the 1940’s was often a dreary place for the student. Time passed on tortoise legs as endless periods of algebra or “Mort d’Arthur” filled the day. In those war-time classroom the distractions had to be manufactured from the few possibilities available. Before ball-points, the school-boy used a pen with a steel nib attached to a wooden stem which was usually chewed to a pulp by the ruminating scholar.
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