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Part of Bessie's program consists of answers to listeners' queries. Typical questions from the Beatty mailbag: 1) What is Vichyssoise? 2) Why are they so cruel to horses in Western movies? 3) Where can my daughter stay in Toronto? 4) Should I have a baby in wartime...
...amused, and write not to complain but in hopes that Mr. Daniels and Mrs. Thomas may find some consolement in this: My four April issues of TIME were delivered on May 26 and they have been coming in this manner since December. Just keep throwing TIME in the mailbag each week and I'll thank you for it no matter when it finds...
...baffled by the civilian crazy quilt of air-raid wardens, spotters, first-aid workers, American Women's Voluntary Services, Red Cross, and local organizations bent on everything from driving ambu lances to shooting down parachutists-this bill looked like the answer. Day after Mrs. Rogers introduced it, her mailbag bulged enthusiastically. The only kicks came from women over 45, who wanted the age limit raised...
...from Harry's New York Bar), and Laurence Hills himself (who was a little aghast at it all, except when he added up the profits). The Herald's, legion of homesick readers gladly paid 5? to read its cabled news from New York, its "Letters From the Mailbag" (occasionally staff-written), its classified ads for apartments and friendships, its homey items from Sioux City and Dallas...
Burly, six-foot Henry Ruthvin Smith is one postman who does not go walking on his holidays. After 16 years of lugging a fat mailbag over a regular residential route in Columbia, S. C., even the walking he had to do for the Post Office Department got to be too much. But while other postmen with the same problem met it by foot baths or retirement, Mailman Smith used his head. Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post. Footsore grey-coats...