Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tenants at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had their share of moving-in headaches. Ike Eisenhower found the bookcases empty in his White House office, and the pale green walls all but stripped of their pictures.* When Ike started to open his mail, he had to buzz for a letter opener. A little later he tugged in vain at the drawer of the broad mahogany presidential desk (which once belonged to Teddy Roosevelt). "Mr. Simmons." said Ike to Receptionist Bill Simmons, "is there a key to this desk? I can't get into this drawer." Simmons produced a key, Ike opened...
...renowned Trigger, which sank at least 27 Japanese ships, wound up the war with his own command. As postwar skipper of the Amberjack, he made himself a terror to carrier admirals during war games. His favorite trick was to sneak up on a carrier, photograph her through his periscope, mail the admiral a print with "Regards from Ned Beach and the Amberjack...
...believe all that he makes fun of." Pastor David Calhoun of Immanuel Baptist Church warningly quoted St. Paul (I. Timothy 4:1): "Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits." Wrote an angry letter writer to the El Paso Times, in a flood of protest mail: "I may not have as many college . . . degrees to my name as [Wright], but I have one degree, a God-conferred degree of B.A. (Born Again), which man did not give...
...When it was over, Wilber said to the bartender: "I can write stuff as good as that." The next day he bought a second-hand book entitled The Television Program. He read it on his way to Toronto, where he was working as a reporter on the Globe and Mail. Then he wrote a 30-minute TV script which was promptly bought by Armstrong Circle Theater. Last week another Wilber play, The Fire Below and the Devil Above, appeared on Kraft Television Theater. It was the 18th TV drama he has sold in the past eleven months...
...vicarious pleasures is reading other people's mail. In Chicago last week, the antitrust suit involving Du Pont and General Motors provided the Government with an opportunity to air confidential letters dating back 30 years and more. No matter what the letters proved or disproved about the Government's charge that Du Font's control of G.M. restricts competition, there was no doubt that they were fascinating footnotes to the growth of Du Pont...