Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since first publication in England 18 months ago, The Third Eye has sold close to 300,000 copies, 12,000 of them in the U.S. From all over the world fan mail poured in to Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. Fans wanted to come in person, but the mysterious Tibetan might have been in a state of permanent astral projection for all they could find of him. Only a few insiders knew-or thought they knew-that Rampa was really Dr. Kuan Suo, an egg-bald, bearded sage living quietly with his English wife outside Dublin. One of these insiders, pretty...
...Paulists started the first Catholic radio station in the U.S., WLWL. They pioneered, among religious groups, the use of paid newspaper ads and car cards to attract converts, developed a nationwide mail-order lending library. Two Paulist trailer chapels operate throughout the South during the summer. Today the Paulists number 221 priests and about 150 students preparing for the priesthood. There are 27 Paulist houses, 24 of them...
Balancing Fact. Fifty years old this year, and firmly fixed as one of the world's most respected dailies, the dignified Monitor permits itself the one gentle brag that it publishes "everything that a well-informed person should know." Since 90% of its press run is mailed to subscribers in the U.S. and 120 other countries. Boston's Monitor ("An International Daily Newspaper") has no truck with trivia, concentrates instead on solid, staff-written interpretative reporting that its editors expect will still be relevant days or weeks later. For this reason, the Monitor gets the ultimate tribute...
Help or Else. Almost every top railroadman went to the hearings armed with a set of recommendations designed to ease the railroads' ills. Among them: allow the railroads the full cost of carrying the U.S. mail, now carried at a loss; eliminate the 10% federal tax on passenger fares, passed during the war to discourage travel, and the 3% tax on freight; encourage railroad mergers; allow the roads to diversify more widely into other forms of transportation, such as trucks and planes. Said the Central's President Perlman: "If we fail to convince you of the desperate need...
Barghoorn had gone out to mail a letter and was found unconscious by police 3 1/2 hours after he left his hotel in one of Amsterdam's main squares...