Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tidy little gardens of verse periodically raked up by Poetot Minou Drouet have nurtured some singularly muse-smitten responses: by the latest count, the lady's Christmas mail included some 20 proposals of marriage. Lest any readers be tormented by life imitating Lolita, the daily Paris-Journal solemnly presented reassurance: petite Minou, 11, has rejected her suitors...
...standard, the 19-day walkout of the tightly knit, semiskilled Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union was a bitter blow. Most New Yorkers had to make do with radio and TV reports (TIME, Dec. 22, 29), which were often skimpy digests of wire-service stories. The nine papers (daily circ. 5,700,000; 8,100,000 on Sunday) laid off some 15,000 workers, who lost an estimated $4,000,000 in wages. Struck during the Christmas rush, the papers missed some $30 million in advertising. Wrote Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the Times in a whimsical office memo: "Last...
...Income. Proposed hikes in the federal gasoline tax, aviation gas tax and postal rates (first-class mail to a flat 5?) will, if approved by Congress, help bring income into line with outgo...
These days, when getting a well-written letter in the mail is as rare as getting a refund from the tax collector, many readers will be happy to agree with Belloc's own estimate of himself. A self-described mixture of "Poverty, Papistry and Pugnacity," Belloc (who died in 1953) had a solemn high literary funeral last year in an authorized biography (TIME, April 22, 1957). Biographer Speaight found leftover material too good to forget, notably a big bundle of crotchety letters-which are a long way from the sort of garrulous guff women still write to each other...
...shutdown was caused by just 877 men from the independent, closely knit Union of Newspaper and Mail Deliverers. Only 37% of the union showed up to vote on the offer of a $4-a-week raise, which would run pay to $107.82 for a 40-hr. daytime week, plus another boost of $3 a week after a year. The 37% voted down the settlement, 877 to 772, although it had been agreed upon by employers and union negotiators, and the picket lines went up. The papers still managed to get out issues for sale at their buildings. Enterprising newsboys bought...