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...Stack, found so much material there that he's now working on a film focusing on one of the inmates. He's also got a whole new crew of pen pals. "I'll ask one of them a question, and two weeks later I'll get a 10-page handwritten letter about it. They've been thinking about nothing else," he says. "It's like having your own personal think tank...
...thin Indian man with not much hair sits alone on a bare floor, wearing nothing but a loincloth and a pair of cheap spectacles, studying the clutch of handwritten notes in his hand. The black-and-white photograph takes up a full page in the newspaper. In the top left-hand corner of the page, in full color, is a small rainbow-striped apple. Below this, there's a slangily American injunction to "Think Different." Such is the present-day power of international Big Business. Even the greatest of the dead may summarily be drafted into its image ad campaigns...
Private letters written by Princess Diana to her lover James Hewitt during their 1989-91 affair have been handed over to Kensington Palace after a woman attempted to sell them to a tabloid newspaper. Hewitt's fiancée, Anna Ferretti, 39, tried to sell 62 handwritten letters to editors of the Mirror for $250,000, saying she wanted to sell them before Hewitt did, the paper claims. The letters ("said to be highly personal and emotional," according to the rival Daily Mail, revealing Diana's "innermost thoughts about the collapse of her marriage") reportedly had been taken from...
...most far-reaching transformations have taken place where consumers rarely see them, in vast processing centers such as a computerized Manhattan facility that has room for 43 football fields. There a pair of operators using optical scanners can sort 35,000 envelopes an hour, including those with handwritten addresses. The entire windowless center--part of a five-year, $14 billion USPS overhaul--handles an average of 2 million pieces a day and has slashed processing costs by two-thirds...
...founded TIME magazine. Somebody gives you a small tab of paper, you happily lick it and you're gone. That's what happened in 1960 when CLARE BOOTHE LUCE--playwright, socialite, anticommunist and wife of Henry Luce--turned on, tuned in and dropped LSD with her husband. Luce's handwritten acid diaries were made public this month, 10 years after her death, as stipulated in her will. Among her Jim Morrisonesque musings: "Capture green bug for future reference," "Feel all true paths to glory lead but to the grave," and "The futility of the search to be someone...