Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists, of course, agreed, and, in the ensuing verbal brouhaha, sight was lost of the fact that no censorship had been imposed by either the Italian or U.S. governments. All that had happened was that Europeans had been informed that not all Americans are content to receive their mail addressed to "Tobacco Road...
...more than 250 years, the horse was to America what the sailing ship was to the British Empire: carrier of arms and men, of commerce, of mail. Harnessed to the plow, the horse helped the frontiersman turn wilderness into civilization...
Selby's TV and newspaper work keep him going 13 hours a day. Once he gets to his typewriter, he can finish a column in around 15 minutes. The rest of the time he is busy on the phone, answering his mail, badgering his contacts and just plain digging for stories-as when he broke, in effect, the state's case against Virginia Carroll in the shooting of Politician William F. Meade (TIME, April 7, 1952). He is usually home in suburban Bryn Mawr by about 7 p.m. for his ceremonial "B and B" (Brahms and bourbon...
...book-club system, which accounts for about 10% of all U.S. book sales, has moved into the music field in a big way. Mail-order music clubs have been spinning profitably on the fringes of the record business for ten years, and today they are going stronger than ever, may now account for as much as 15% of the LP business. Their method resembles the book clubs': full-page ads in the Sunday supplements, often dominated by the word "FREE!" in doughnut lettering. The usual deal: subscribers get a record free for joining up, or for every two they...
...Early mail-order music clubs included the high-minded Concert Hall Society and the Young People's Record Club. Biggest of today's houses, with fluctuating memberships as high as 225,000: Musical Masterpiece Society, Music Treasures of the World and the Book-of-the-Month Club's Music-Appreciation Records. All of them have had the same disadvantages: no regular big-name performers and merely average sound quality. Nonetheless, they operate at a tidy profit, and some are trying hard to improve their wares, e.g., the Book-of-the-Month Club has begun releasing topnotch Angel...