Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customers are just as pleased. Postman Frank Derrick ($4,000 a year) lived on Chicago's South Side, decided to move to suburban Park Terrace. Says his wife Geraldene: "We didn't have a down payment. But Frank was determined. He took out a $20 bill and handed it to the salesman and said, 'This is to show that I mean business.' We started to save for the down payment on the budget plan and finally got a G.I. mortgage." The Derricks now have a brick, three-bedroom ranch house with two TV sets...
...Florence (Fanny) Henderson. It races along like a hot rod, but every other line and every song is part of the sales spiel. The title: Got Rhythm. The message: "I got beauty! I got styling! I got sweet lines." "The car," intones D. P. Brother ad agency Vice President Frank Egan, "is, of course, the real star of the show...
...Frozen Revolution, by Frank Gibney. An expert reading of Poland's cliff-hanging predicament, halfway between subjugation and freedom...
...Frozen Revolution, by Frank Gibney. An expert reading of Poland's cliff-hanging predicament, halfway between subjugation and freedom, by a LIFE staff writer...
...last year by querying 13,000 West Point graduates (including Dwight Eisenhower) on what changes they thought should be made. The alumni came up with a good many provocative ideas, e.g., women instructors, but agreed on little. West Point then called in a panel of consultants headed by Dr. Frank Bowles, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, who urged 1) some elective courses, 2) more humanities and 3) more specialization in the upper classes. "The problem is where to put it in the curriculum," said Bowles, who estimates that revisions will go on gradually for the next five years...