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Jonathan Kegg tries to get to the bottom of the arson of a candy store in which a teenage boy is accused.
Original Air Date: July 18, 1950
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Some weird details here. $5 for a fountain pen seems like a fortune for 1950, and that’s also late enough that what we’d think of as modern ballpoint pens were proliferating rapidly throughout the US as a cheaper, vastly superior alternative. The Biro patent was issued in 1938, and twelve years later ballpoints were already taking over as the ink-based writing instrument of choice – at least according to my own grandparents and what I’m seeing online. Why any teacher would be demanding a kid use a fountain pen (if, in fact, they were) is baffling to me, and makes me suspect the writers was some old fogey who was remembering school days long in the past, not the reality of 1950.