I remember this booklet! It was sitting on my dad's desk, down in our basement. It's funny how your brain can dredge up details about a long-ago event, given the tiniest of nudges from a photo, a smell, or a sound. In this case, I remember not only the booklet itself, but also the ballpoint pen that lay next to it: black with a silver metal parts (the tip, the button, the clip, and a ring around the middle), some silver printing on it (an ad of some kind), and a distinctive and peculiar odor. This must have been around 1960 or so. I wonder why my brain thought
that particular little piece of data needed to be filed away?
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