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Quincy House residents petitioned the Cambridge post office for the return of a mailbox on the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Sts., but the post office said it was an unlikely prospect because drunken students kept moving the mailbox, confusing mailmen when they came to empty...
...Last of all, there's the mailbox at the corner of Mt. ?---Auburn and Plympton St. It wandered off, and appears unlikely to return...
...like any other, and putting words on paper to make stories was no different from stitching leather to make shoes. His real career, he maintained, was in the post office, where he worked for 33 years, rising from clerk to executive. (It was Trollope who introduced the street-corner mailbox.) Indeed, his failure finally to become the second in command, the highest post he could hope to achieve, was more galling to him than the barbs of all the literary critics in London...
...office's Squad 47, which was assigned to investigate radical groups, and is alleged to have regularly pilfered letters from relatives and friends of suspected terrorist fugitives. The indictment charges that in carrying out "the mail run," as the agents came to call it, they used illegally obtained mailbox keys and opened the letters at FBI headquarters in Manhattan with a "steamer"-a device that allows resealing without evidence of tampering. Agents also tapped phones of numerous eavesdropping targets without obtaining required court permission. Despite those efforts, they failed to turn up Bernardine Dohrn or other Weather Underground fugitives...
...More Magazine teetered along, occasionally providing those interested in behind-the-scenes events in the world of American media with some enjoyable tidbits. But, at just about the time when many More devotees were beginning to wonder whether the thin-and-getting-thinner news monthly was worth opening the mailbox for, More burst on the scene this summer with a totally new format. While the old More dwelled solely on news, and the men and women who make it, the introductory note in the July/August issue said the magazine would now cover advertising, book publishing, film, public relations and marketing...