Word: mailboxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schmitt, his wife and two young sons, have settled down to a long stay out in Waltham. Schmitt hopes some day to become a head coach at a college, but he realizes that he first must lay a base for himself in the college coaching field. In Schmitt's mailbox almost every day are reasons why he wants to continue in coaching. These are invitations to the weddings of the men with whom he has worked, who have appreciated his lighthearted approach to the rugged business of football. Schmitt has made himself a popular coach by being more than...
...Pointed. In Mt. Clemens, Mich., police swiftly cracked a case when Daniel Chalfont stole a $56 check from a stranger's mailbox, endorsed it with the payee's name but absentmindedly wrote his own address...
...Barkley was all for putting up a sign: "Private Property, No Trespassing." But Mr. Democrat put his foot down. Today, despite the fact that a family of strangers recently littered his front lawn with a picnic lunch, the Veep's only sign is the name on the mailbox: "A. W. Barkley...
...stocky Detroit businessman, middle-aged and raring for a night on the town, dropped his room key at the desk of the Hotel Continental in Paris' Rue de Castiglione. In his mailbox, as in those of hundreds of other Americans in Paris last week, was a letter. "The enclosed wallet-size 'protection card,' " it said, "comes to you with the compliments of the American Hospital of Paris, which for nearly half a century has been a feature of American life in this city . . . The hospital is yours...
...ordered only 100. When he had used most of them, he wrote to a colleague in Switzerland saying that he refused to "linger on to become a burden to others." The week before Christmas, he filled out the last of the forms and put it in the mailbox. He informed his garage staff that he would not be seeing them over the New Year, and gave them their Christmas presents. That night he was found dead in his laboratory, beside an open Bunsen burner...