Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other schools graduates get the alumni magazine by class subscriptions, while at Harvard the option not to subscribe rests with the individual. The Fund Council at the University limits itself to mail appeals which alumni can throw away; elsewhere the money drives use personal solicitation to boost receipts, although this may cause resentment from alumni...
Like soldiers everywhere, Communist Czechoslovakia's troops enjoy getting letters from their girls.* Last week Czechoslovakia's Military Enlightenment Officer attempted to take all the joy out of mail call. "The stuff you used to write your girls," he told the soldiers, "is not proper for a member of the people's democratic army." Instead of "vain talk of love," he continued, "you must tell your girls about the experience of being built into new human beings for service in a new and stronger people's army. Tell them to write you about their experiences...
...Korea last week, the fighting men of the U.S. 1st Marine Division gathered for a long-delayed mail call. More than 1,000,000 letters had accumulated for the leathernecks as they sailed along Korea's coast, waiting for the delayed landing at Wonsan. When the letters were doled out in what was probably the biggest mail call in the Corps' history, one marine expressed relief. Clutching a bundle of letters, he shouted: "They still love me-all six of them...
Actually, President Hall has had a short career. Played by Actor Ronald Colman, he exists for only half an hour a week, Wednesday nights on NBC. But judging by the president's fan mail, U.S. educators like him fine. By the pie-simple process of self-identification, many a paunchy U.S. educator is clearly having a gratifying half hour listening to Ronald Colman suavely solving his problems...
...Korea. Because Standard Oil of California's net was 50% above last year's (at $46 million), its directors declared an extra dividend of $1. The Texas Co., whose net of $41 million was almost one-third above last year's third quarter, was going to mail out an extra $1.50 to its stockholders...