Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postman was walking up a nearby street delivering mail when a paratrooper thrust his rifle across the carrier's chest and told him to retreat. The paratrooper said he had "orders...
Next Tuesday morning the mail boxes in Lowell and Leverett will be opened as usual about 9:30 or 10 and a uniformed arm will reach in to place the usual bills, letters, circulars, and postcards in the little cubbyholes. But sharp-eyed members of these Houses will note that for the first time in 22 years, the boxes will opened by a new man, and the hand under the uniform will be different. For veteran letter carrier Andy Corr is retiring after bringing Bellboys and Bunnies news from home for over 20 years...
...acquainted with the letter carrier any more." In the old days, he remembers, "they would be waiting for the letter carrier." But tossing his regrets for the past aside, the retiring postman admits that the student body has improved since the days when he first started to deliver mail to Harvard. "They seem to be more industrious boys today," he says; in his early days here, "you used to meet students at all hours," while now he sees them hardly...
Years ago, when Andy was delivering mail in Fresh Pond, he would report at 7:20 in the morning, make two deliveries and then enjoy a two-hour layoff from 12:40 to 2:40 p.m. He would then make his afternoon delivery, and go home at 5 p.m. Nowadays he must be at the post office at 6:15 a.m. and work until 2:45 p.m. with a half hour off for lunch. "You're supposed to sit on the curbstone and eat your lunch," he laments. He also must get up at 5 in the morning, which means...
Last year a federal court in Pittsburgh found Murray Kram guilty on ten counts of mail fraud, socked him with a $4,500 fine, three months in jail and five years' probation. Last week, ruling that there was "hardly a scintilla" of evidence that Murray had misled his customers, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision. Despite the court's action, Murray Kram, 28, felt that the mail business was getting too uncomfortable. But he already had a new, eminently legal career in mind: aiding churches as a professional fund raiser, at 15% of the gross...