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...double-or triple-parking mail trucks at railroad terminals, drivers waited obediently for curbside parking space-and missed the trains. Postmen were careful to take only the regulation 35-lb. load on their rounds. According to the rules, mail must be delivered only through the recipient's mailbox or handed to him personally; normally, if there is no mailbox, the postmen simply poke letters through a window or, if the recipient is out, hand them to a neighbor. Now all mail that could not be left in a mailbox or delivered personally went straight back...
...price: $50,000), left behind more than $24 million in insurance claims, and the flossiest refugees since the Russian Revolution. Among the homeless were Actor Cliff Robertson, Joan Fontaine, Comedian Arnold Stang, Bandleader Orrin Tucker. All that was left of Burt Lancaster's $500,000 estate was a mailbox, an exercise bicycle and a smoldering set of barbells. Poking through his own $100,000 ruins, Joe E. Brown uncovered only some oddments and the dress sword of his son-an Army Air Force captain killed during World War II. Out of $500,000 worth of ashes composed in part...
Slow Process. In seven years at Bucks County, Producer Michael Ellis has painstakingly developed the theater's reputation for original presentations, often losing money. Word is out that he reads new scripts, and they are now being stuffed into his mailbox at the rate of five a week...
...getting his ten-year prison sentence reduced, written the letter to please his jailers? Had they even written the letter for him? No one could say, for Powers himself was nowhere in sight, and the New York Times could find no trace of any such letter in its mailbox...
...awestruck salesman had seen one of the world's fastest moving landmarks, a man who seems to have no permanent address but is often called "The Human Mailbox," an earth-blanketing pressagent more interesting than many of his clients. Onetime Manhattan p.r. man and for 20 years critic and columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, Irving Hoffman disengaged himself in 1952, began to roam all continents as a sort of gypsy flack. He is or has been everybody's buddy-from Wendell Willkie to Polly Adler, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, ferry boat captains, prostitutes, J. Edgar Hoover, the Maharani...