Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...madcap onstage, she is a more serious character when she is off. But she is still passionately fond of fishing and sailing, and runs off to the country whenever she can. Her life in Manhattan is an exacting round of lessons, rehearsals, fittings and photographs. She conscientiously answers her mail, and seldom" fails to get off a cheery quarterly letter to the Princess Patter, a mimeographed magazine published by her teen-age fan club (Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Risë Stevens, Jan Peerce are honorary members...
When he got out of the Army in 1946, Seymour Waldman, 25, had no particular relish for his old job as a letter writer in a Chicago mail-order house. Instead, he "studied up on steel," and with $5,000 saved and borrowed, set up the Emergency Steel Service Corp., a company dedicated to "easing the troubles of businessmen with no established sources of steel supply." In short, he became a grey-marketeer in steel. This year alone, Waldman, whose only sales instrument is the telephone, took in $7,000,000, expects to end 1951 with a profit...
...Committee, which operated during the war has just revived. Through it, University men in the service are told of other University men in their camp. They can find the addresses of men they knew as students and they can send a friend a letter through PBH which will forward mail to a serviceman anywhere in the world. The committee also notifies Harvard Clubs throughout the country of an ex-student in the armed forces stationed nearby...
...annual tea dances that gives anyone who has a mind for that sort of thing a chance to look over the new crop at Radcliffe in an atmosphere more relaxed that that of the 'Cliffe's jollyups. A Hospital Visiting Committee makes daily trips to Stillman to carry mail, assignments, books, and stationery for bedded students...
Motley still sounds angry, and his new novel, We Fished All Night, is written in the same hoarse voice. It begins with a strike at a big Chicago mail-order house, and ends ten years later with another strike at the same place. Between these two points, Author Motley has strung three plots. Jim Norris rises to the leader ship of the local union, almost cracks up psychologically (he has an urge to molest children), but pulls himself together in time to lead the second strike. Don Lockwood, a handsome Polish boy (born Kosinski), is torn between labor politics...