Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. James Alexander Linen Jr., 73, chairman of the board and onetime (1937-55) president of International Correspondence Schools World Ltd., Inc. (a vast learn-by-mail enterprise with more than a million alumni in 59 nations), Scranton, Pa. civic leader, father of TIME's Publisher James A. Linen III; of a heart attack, in Waverly...
Loos went to work that day, and was available to the press only at a ten-minute break in the afternoon. He spent the night playing chess with a World-Telegram reporter (he learned to play by mail) and by morning decided to call the whole thing...
...Nixon-Adams relationship has become one of considerable discussion-and misinterpretation. Headlined the Toronto Globe and Mail last week: POWER FIGHT WAGED BY NIXON AND ADAMS. The real situation: Nixon and Adams sometimes disagree as to method but rarely as to purpose. Adams thinks of the executive branch as being able to do what it thinks is right without worrying too much about public opinion; Nixon, as an aide explains, knows that "the people run the country, and if you don't know what the people think, you're in trouble." Nonetheless, Dick Nixon and Sherman Adams have...
...Mayo Buckner, whose whole life had been spent in the institution, transition to the outside world would be tougher. In the mail came offers of two jobs and a score of places to live. Buck thought he would like to teach music. As soon as he and Superintendent Sasser agree on a place for him to go, he will be free-free, as Buck put it, "just to go out and sit in a park and listen to a good band...
...Bangor, Me. superimposes the suggestion "Write W-TWO" once every eleven seconds on certain of its TV shows, in a flash too swift for conscious perception. The station promised to keep FCC posted on the experiment; so far, a spokesman admitted, the results in the station's mail volume have been as subliminal as the message. But the trade weekly Broadcasting found two radio stations that reported success with a similar method: short announcements slipped quietly into natural pauses or over a musical background. Not really subliminal, they are consciously perceptible-but just barely. KLTI in Longview, Texas calls...