Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a host of pleasant, interesting people your admirable magazine must have as readers, including more hill walkers and mountain climbers than ever I guessed were in all of motorized America! We've been getting quite a pile of mail, after you mentioned us in the Oct. 31 issue. Some of our correspondents are home-town lovers, inviting us to include their homes on our itinerary so they may communicate their local pride...
...City and Massachusetts General. The last is clearly the most rigidly operated and a machine-like of the five, with the result the MGH volunteers are permitted to perform only specifically-defined, "medically approved" duties. These include answering call lights, reading to patients and helping in the hospital's mail and messenger service. Massachusetts General assumes strict interpretation of the word "volunteer": workers feel privileged to help rather than specially respected for their free services...
Mary Ruth Wolf, director of the entire volunteer set-up at Massachusetts General, feels that whether College volunteers are busy in the wards, at the telephone switchboard, or in the mail service, they are always acquiring what she calls "hospital sensitivity"--an ability to do the right thing at the right time under both emergency and ordinary conditions. It is this "sensitivity" which the program's pre-meds intently strive to attain...
Within five years, rockets will be carrying mail and cargo across the Atlantic. Shortly thereafter, they will be carrying passengers. These predictions were made at last week's Chicago meeting of the American Rocket Society by Harry F. Guggenheim, aircraft and rocket pioneer, and a director of the National Aeronautic Association. Guggenheim believes that rockets will cost less than jet airliners and will use less fuel because they will coast most of the way through the almost airless ionosphere...
...Line. In London, Joyce Wells Ltd., mail-order house, offered oil paintings for sale for only $49.95: "A magnificent hunting panel, a lady with lovely eyes or a gentleman you will be proud to claim as your ancestor...