Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before he left Hawaii, TV Columnist John Crosby summed up for his freeloading comrades: "The author of Adventures in Paradise doesn't actually write it. The Islands of the Pacific are the setting, except you never see them. The star gets fan mail from a lot of people who have never seen him act." As for Author Michener, said Crosby: "He is the Edna Ferber of the South Pacific...
...dress nearly slipped off-was attractive Mrs. Susan Silverstone, thirtyish, of Manhattan, who was promptly dubbed "Black-Eyed Susan." Passengers confirmed the incident, but it was not until farther down in the story that readers discovered where Captain Armstrong was during the unzipping: on the bridge. In the Daily Mail, a "former Cunard officer," defending the captain, confided that "on cruises there are always women who travel with one object-to find romance. And there are always women who complain because they think they have been left out of things...
Automatic Mail Canceler. An automatic mail-facing and canceling machine that positions up to 500 letters a minute for canceling was introduced by Pitney-Bowes Inc. The new machine, being installed in post offices around the country, has been processing 27,000 letters an hour with a six-man crew, v. 16.000 letters an hour by a ten-man crew working manually. Price...
...snarls for months. What had suddenly turned the snarls into a shrill chorus of rage was President Eisenhower's approaching tour of Western Europe's capitals and a surge of British fear that Adenauer would somehow persuade Ike "to keep the cold war alive." To the Daily Mail (circ. 2,071,054), Adenauer was reminiscent of Adolf Hitler, "who ranted and raved to show what a great man he was." To Lord Beaverbrook's Express, Adenauer was "willing to prolong the quarrel between Russia and the U.S. for the purpose -the sole purpose-of recovering East Germany...
Died. Claude Grahame-White, 79, popular barnstorming pilot of aviation's infancy, Britain's first qualified pilot, who demonstrated the multiple uses of the airplane: he was the first to carry mail by air (letters from London to King George V at Windsor), the first to try night flying (boys trained their bicycle lights on the runway to help him take off; friends formed a procession of automobile lights along his route), the first to mount a machine gun on a plane and later use it in dogfights in World War I; in Nice, France...