Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro servant was turned over to Jones; the carpenter (now a Baton Rouge contractor) who turned the sheep pen into Jones's first schoolroom. At the program's end, Edwards explained that the school was crippled by its lack of an endowment and asked his viewers to mail $1 each to Educator Jones at Piney Woods, Miss. At week's end, nearly $150,000 had poured into Piney Woods; and a Texas firm had wired that it was sending free playground equipment...
...have gone down as a great university prank. Some people thought it was terrible and required discipline, others that it was deucedly clever and should be laughed off. I decided the latter, so he has had no punishment and will get none." Added the Head, who is also getting mail about Bumblie: "I hope your readers are happy about...
...lion's wings have molted," cried London's Tory Daily Mail last week. "Our planes are out of date," complained the Liberal News Chronicle. Said the wor ried Manchester Guardian: "The gap in the air defenses of Britain is disturbingly evident...
...Last week, while Challengers Louis Wolfson and Fred Saigh, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, jabbed away, Board Chairman Sewell Avery got a possible new ally. The candidate: Britain's Isaac Wolfson (no kin to Florida's Louis), chairman of Great Universal Stores, Ltd., a giant mail-order firm with 1,000 retail outlets in Britain and Canada...
...London Wolfson had nothing to say. But it was no secret that he was hunting for U.S. outlets; earlier this year he headed a group of British investors that sought to buy control of Chicago's Spiegel, Inc., third largest U.S. mail-order firm...