She had no garden, and therefore wasn't to be found pruning the roses or manuring the asparagus; instead she nurtured journalists, and many famous names were first commissioned and edited by her with a biro snippy as secateurs.
A woman with thick glasses broke down, croaking: "You're the most refined, cultured, humble chairman".To Mr Tata's right, watching it all, was Cyrus Mistry, twirling a biro and wearing a poker face.
How different from the days when an answer scribbled in biro on the palm of a sweaty hand was all that stood between a candidate's success and failure.
It is a far cry from the days when an answer scribbled in biro on the palm of a sweaty hand was all that stood between a candidate's success and failure.
That was the kitchen, where every morning after tea and bath she would spread out her notes and dictionaries and weave, in black biro, the intricacies of a violent crime.
(They slip through wormholes in space to biro heaven when nobody is looking).The idea went through several iterations, first as a radio series, then television, then a sequence of books which, though described as a trilogy, ran to five volumes.
Aspirin, biro, escalator, gramophone, shredded wheat, yo-yo: these are just some of the once registered trademarks that (at least in Britain) have lost their status by falling into generic use.
The only thing to hand was a scrap torn out of a notebook, so that's what I got: a three-inch square of paper with a biro scribble.
As he prepared to present the Autumn Statement, Mr Osborne tweeted a image of his hand holding a blue biro, hovering over a copy of the spending review – which was seemingly unmarked by ink.
The largest biro in the world has been recorded at 5.5 metres, while the largest hot dog cart in the world is 23 feet 2 inches long, 9 feet 3 inches wide and 12 feet 2.75 inches high.
"We drove around with a big A-Z full of biro marks," says Sophie.
