However, I knew his real motivation when I learned that, had he been able to prove the maximal height of K2, he wanted it renamed Mount Reynolds.
He’d officially retired, but not before sensationalizing the pen business a few more times. Like the singer James Brown, his way of leaving the stage was to keep coming back for encores. Besides the original Reynolds pen that had sold more than any pen model in history, the Reynolds International Pen Company in just a few years had introduced the 400 (the pen that needs no cap), the Rocket and several spin-offs, including the Junior, Senior, and Super Rockets, as well as the Rocket Threesome (the Rockette and the Stubby Rocket sold in a set with the Rocket), and then the Bombshell and the Reynolds Flyer. (And I’ve probably missed a few.) At the
