Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week 46-year-old Alger Hiss walked through the bleak ruin of his life. His wife Priscilla was not with him. From Judge Goddard's paneled courtroom he went downstairs to the courthouse garage, handcuffed to Edward Jones, a petty mail thief. A crowd of photographers surrounded him, to catch this final incident. A deputy marshal asked him if he minded. The mail thief hid his face, but Alger Hiss said calmly: "If this is what you want, it's all right with me." Then he was loaded into a prison van with Jones and half...
...night, at the village of Villevieux in central France, Vincent Auriol silently crawled in among the sacks in the back of a mail truck. Then the truck jounced past two German sentries, on its way to an open field six kilometers from town. Thirty townsmen had already slipped out to the field, to signal with flashlights to an approaching R.A.F. plane. Shortly after midnight, Auriol, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and three other passengers were safe in the air, bound for London...
...Cardinals' Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 20, tagged by sportwriters as "the lefthanded Dizzy Dean." In a pure corn-pone drawl, Vinegar explains his nickname: "Vinegar Bend, Mississippi [pop. about 75] is where ah gets mah mail.'' Signed as a barefoot prospect in nearby Leakesville, Miss. (pop. around 1,000) two years ago, Vinegar bounced up the Cardinal chain to Winston-Salem last year, where he won 17 games, struck out 227 batters in 207 innings. Cardinal Manager Marty Marion exults over his huge (6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs.) pitcher: "He has the livest fast ball...
...after the luxury winter trade with eight new DC-6s. In eleven months of 1950, thanks partly to better business for all airlines, National chalked up more than $2,000,000 profit (v. a loss of $20,000 the year before), was $381,487 in the black even before mail pay. Last week Baker got his reward: CAB dropped its dismemberment proceedings...
...plane outfit the busiest feeder airline in the U.S. In 1950, Long reported last week, Pioneer topped all competitors in passenger miles flown (37 million), was outranked only by Washington, D.C.'s All American in revenue passengers flown. Even after a $400,000 slash in Government mail pay, Long managed to boost Pioneer's profits by 7%, turn in a tidy...