Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friday Mrs. Miner has sandwiched 15 hours of typing time among the chores of a housewife. She stuffs the 26-to 30-page completed cover story into a Manila envelope, drops it in the mail. By Saturday, Richard Kinney, deaf-blind instructor at Winnetka's Hadley School for the Blind, has begun to run his fingers across one of the few up-to-date news stories available to him (most braille transcribing lags weeks behind publication dates, and for the deaf-blind, for whom radio is useless, news almost always grows stale before it is read). Kinney, who never...
...growing headaches: it is constantly caught in the middle by the slings and arrows of outraged viewers-individuals and organized groups. This is an occupational hazard long familiar to Hollywood, which learned how sensitive all kinds of minorities can be to slurs, real or imagined. An avalanche of mail (NBC alone gets 3,000,000 letters a year) has convinced network executives that TV, because it shares the privacy of the viewer's home, seems to give offense and draw abuse even more readily...
...awkward "am I not," thinks it fine to occasionally split infinitives, regards prepositions as good things to end sentences with. Says the professor: "When I say, 'Well, that's all we've got time for,' it always triggers a bushel of mail from people who think that 'got' is wrong...
...weed-grown parade ground of Fort Laramie, Wyo. under the flapping flag of the most important post of Western frontier days. And few who took highway 340 through the staid Amish community of Intercourse, Pa. (just three miles this side of Paradise-pop. 549) missed the chance to mail some sure-laugh postcards...
...comic-book titles, songs and sayings are culled from some 30,000 stumpers mailed in each week by viewers who hope to win a TV set by baffling one of the teams. Five readers on the West Coast reduce this flood to a trickle of the 100 best, an assistant producer in Manhattan thins it to 50, and Stokey selects the best eight of these. A great many of the stumpers sent in have already been used or seem too easy. The most frequently submitted gag line is "Head for the roundhouse, Nellie, the brakeman can't corner...