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Special Delivery. In Middletown, Ohio, Letter Carrier Webster Newton opened a sidewalk mailbox to collect the outgoing mail, found a can of washing powder, four cans of cold beer, $11 in change, two keys, and 28 envelopes filled with scrap paper...
...London winter of 1887, a grubby manuscript fell into the mailbox of the monthly Merry England. Editor Wilfrid Meynell promptly pigeonholed it and did not look at it for six months. By then the author, a certain Francis Joseph Thompson, had disappeared. Letters addressed to him went unanswered. At last Meynell resorted to the oldest author-tracing trick of the trade: he printed one of the submitted poems, The Passion of Mary, and found his poet...
This puckered, puckish puss belongs to Cupid. Peering, leering out of your mailbox, his target for today...
...should like to make a few comments on the suggestions which have appeared in the Crimson Mailbox to date concerning the replacement of President Conant. Both men suggested, Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Bunche, are great Americans and it would be an honor for the University to have them in the capacity of its President. However, I'm sure that they would both agree that this is not where they may best serve themselves and the world. Mr. Bunche has already indicated as much in his reluctant refusal of the Professorship which was offered him several years...
...CRIMSON welcomes expression of reader opinion in its Mailbox column. Last year, over 100 letters were printed, ranging from criticisms of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to poems about Radcliffe girls to impassioned defenses of Richard M. Nixon. Letters should be under 400 words, and the editors reserve the right to abridge them if space limitations make this necessary. No changes in context will be made, however. All letters must be signed but names can be witheld by request...