Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Telly and 17 other S-H papers all over the U.S. were flooded with thousands of letters and phone calls. In the mail, blasts from McCarthy supporters outnumbered praise for the series by about five to one. But more than half the pro-McCarthy mail was anonymous, while virtually all the anti-McCarthy mail was signed. Said one S-H executive: "The crank mail usually outnumbers the sensible mail about five to one." Woltman, veteran anti-Communist reporter and never a member of the party or anything close to it, got letters addressed to "Comrade Woltman" and "Freddy Jewish Woltman...
Family Man. In Midland, Texas, E. G. Foust advertised in the Reporter-Telegram: "Will party or parties that have constantly robbed my mail for the last year please . . . give me your name so I can claim dependents on my income...
...room at Ebbets Field, the Giants sulked away a long afternoon while they waited to start the last of the series with the archenemy. Outside, a thin rain drenched Brooklyn. "Do you think those bums'll call it off?" muttered Hank Thompson as he riffled through his fan mail. "Hell, no. Anything for a lousy dollar." He slouched over for a rubdown from the trainer. Off in a corner, Willie Mays and his road-trip roommate, Monte Irvin, laughed apathetically over a joke. Across the room, a group of players carried on a silent gin-rummy game. Conversation, what...
CONTINENTAL AIR LINES' purchase of Pioneer Air Lines was approved by Civil Aeronautics Board examiner, who said that the combine would better serve 30 cities in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, save the U.S. $916,000 yearly in mail subsidies...
Lanky Ralph Izzard, foreign correspondent of the London Daily Mail, is not one to be intimidated by the impossible. When his editor ordered him off to Nepal to cover the British Everest Expedition and beat the Times of London, off he went. But how he could beat the Times, or even get the story, was a puzzler. The Times was subsidizing the expedition; by excluding all rivals from climb and climbers, it had a guaranteed airtight exclusive. Nonetheless, Correspondent Izzard, innocent as a fox, timid as a lion, moved in. An Innocent on Everest is his modest and amusing story...