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...tune for what he estimated was the 500th time, McVea said: "It's just one of those things. I might not be able to do anything like it again." But he was willing to try. He had a sequel all ready, called The Key Is in the Mailbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Open the Door, Richard | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

After smashing in a mailbox and getting the $65 check, Parkhurst would usually head for a liquor package, haber-dashery, or speciality shop in metropolitan Boston. With his brown hair neatly slicked back, and always nattily dressed, he gave the perfect appearance of a well-to-do college...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Ex-Undergrad Admits He Is Check Looter | 1/9/1947 | See Source »

...does every week, small businessman Jim Mulder of Lemon Grove, Calif. tucked his paid bills, sales slips and the salary record of his one employe into an envelope and dropped it into a mailbox. The envelope, and all Jim Mulder's bookkeeping worries, went to "Mail-Me-Monday." By last week, some 3,000 small businessmen in 58 U.S. and Canadian cities were doing the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Mail-Me-Monday | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Besides doing the carpentry, the wiring, the painting, the plumbing, and the heating work on the units, the Federal Public Housing Authority throws in with each home a jade-green plastic shower curtain, an ice-box, a porcellain towel rack, an aluminum mailbox, and a two-plate electric stove complete with oven. Everything else is up to the individual, but the University has a limited amount of furniture available for rental...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Harvardevens, Livable but Expensive, Shapes Up as Real Community | 10/18/1946 | See Source »

...Pillbox Mailbox. In Evergreen Bluff, Mich., Allen Chesbro, after five successive wooden mailboxes had been flattened by drunken drivers, built No. 6 on a 15-in. steel beam, buttressed by 16 tons of concrete, guarded by a 130-lb. rail, topped off by an ominous replica of a blockbuster bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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