Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Which is the Lampoon, Dear Reader: a select club or a literary effort? For the last few months, the answer has been all too clear. The Castle may have been beseiged with good times, but the printed matter has been dreary. Since fall, the Lampoon's coffers have been cracking with filthy PlayboyParody lucre. The club was refurbished, but the magazine's layout and content brightened only sporadically. Unfortunately for the Lampoon, money can talk, but it can't write...
...talented talent scout, even if he couldn't spell very well. "Dear Max," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, in 1924: "This is to tell you about a young man named Ernest Hemmingway, who lives in Paris & has a brilliant future. Ezra Fount published a collection of his short pieces. I havn't it hear now but its remarkable & I'd look him up right away." Fitzgerald's letter was filed away at Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan, along with the publishing house's correspondence with hundreds of other authors...
...taxpayers last week greeted April with understandable melancholy. By the 17th of the month (the 15th falls on Saturday this year), they must part with something near and dear to each of them-money. This year, according to the Tax Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit study group, the average American family will fork over $3,300 to federal, state and city tax collectors. That is $269 more than the median family in come in 1947. Overall, the foundation predicts, U.S. individuals and companies will hand out $203 billion, better than double the amount of fiscal...
August 1966: "Dear Mom & Dad, I am, really, looking forward to going to Viet Nam. Please don't worry about me. I'll be fine...
...Shah rewarded his ministers with handfuls of newly minted gold coins. In a family tableau showing the continuity of the Pahlevi line, the Shah, the Empress and the Crown Prince inaugurated a new TV station in Teheran. In his first speech to the country, the tiny Reza said: "My dear countrymen and sisters, I wish you a happy new year...