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Word: mail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mail Now. In a final effort to reach agreement, Goodwin sent Look and Harper a memorandum indicating ten personal passages about Jackie that the Kennedys were anxious to delete; at that point, they were not even attempting to change the book's tone toward Johnson, despite their alarm at it. Two Harper executives flew to London, where Manchester was working on his interrupted Krupp book, to discuss the changes. Later they said that some changes had been made, but refused to show the galleys to the Kennedys. Look also refused to show them its galleys. Jackie finally decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Battle of the Book | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...stop publication. That threw both companies into turmoil-not to mention the London Sunday Times, Paris Match, West Germany's Der Stern and Italy's Epoca, which had paid Look nearly $300,000 for European rights and had launched promotion campaigns. Look similarly was flooding the mail with warnings that "the only way you can be certain of reading every installment is to mail your introductory Look subscription now." Moreover, eight pages of the first installment were already being run off in Chicago for Look's Jan. 24 issue, due on newsstands Jan. 10. "It would cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Battle of the Book | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...stimulated by the success of mail-order merchandising and the paperback revolution. Even today, perhaps only 2% of the population ever sets foot in a conventional bookstore-and there are only about 1,500 of those. But the U.S. letter-carrier has become the middleman in an enterprise that accounts today for about 15% of the book volume. All told, mail-order houses and book clubs, such as TIME-LIFE Books and the Reader's Digest Book Club, deliver $181 million worth of volumes to the buyers' doors every year. The market has bred a host of specialty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: A Cerfit of Riches | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...cross-examine the prosecution polygrapher. But during the trial, his boss, 72, collapsed of a heart attack. Bailey, then 27, took over and won the case. After that, he was hired by the four suspects in U.S. history's biggest cash heist, the $1,551,277 Plymouth, Mass., mail robbery.* After one suspect had agreed to help postal inspectors bug the other suspects' phones, Bailey got the tipster to agree to tape-record his bugging conversations with the inspectors, who have not yet been able to get an indictment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: The Boston Prodigy | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...parody. She was a woman so extravagantly beyond the normal pale that even her avowed enemies, the whisky dispensers, had trouble believing she was real. Ultimately they became her most devoted allies, hiring bands to accompany her on lecture tours, subscribing to her house organ, The Smasher's Mail, and cheerfully providing the beer kegs that she mounted on street corners all over the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady & the Hatchet | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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