Mr. Ballpoint
Written by Gerald Everett Jones
Narrated by Michael Gilboe
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In 1945, Milton Reynolds introduced the ballpoint to the United States and triggered the biggest single-day shopping riot in history at Gimbels in Manhattan. The Reynolds International Pen Company made $5 million in eight weeks during the first non-wartime Christmas season. Thereafter, increasing competition from established companies such as Eversharp triggered several years of the "Pen Wars." An exuberant entrepreneur who had already made and lost several fortunes, Reynolds bragged that he "stole it fair and square." This novel is told from Jim's, his mild-mannered son's, point of view about coping with Milton's outrageous schemes then their sudden success.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a fascinating story! I will never hold a pen without looking at it and thinking of Milt Reynolds again. Never thought about it, never really cared, to be truthful, the mechanics and creation of a ballpoint pen... But Gerald Jones took the true story and made it into a wow- what's next? kind of book. Written in the voice of Milts son Jim, the tale of how Reynolds used trickery, deception and his sales genius to make and sell the first pens, makes for an interesting read!