For that was the day Hyman Lipman patented the first pencil with its own eraser . . .a strip of rubber ... the professional pencil sharpener our Mo Rocca watched at work back in 2012: "When ...

“Mr. Pencil Box, we work hard all the time,” a pencil said. “We will not live with the erasers and the sharpener anymore. Tell them to leave.” Mr. Pencil Box ignored this silly reques ...