Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owners (in return for such gratuities as nail files and hair combs), was unable under investigation to show even one of its claimed thousands of diaries. A postal official at Chicago's Merchandise Mart, where the company had a drop box, could recall no such mail's ever arriving, and officials at the warehouse where current diaries were purported to be stored said that they had considered the account dormant since...
...irascible panelist for the BBC's satiric That Was the Week That Was show, he once greeted a group of farmers with the words, "Good evening, peasants." But it is in his theater reviews for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express and more recently for the Daily Mail that his stiletto prose has dug deepest. Damned by producers as a "hired play assassin," he panned a musical by Playwright Wolf Mankowitz so savagely that Mankowitz led six girls into his office with an undersized coffin, saying: "This is the moment we have been waiting for-to send a midget...
Cassius had not fought one round as a pro; yet each day's mail brought a new batch of offers. IF YOU DESIRE TO HAVE EXCELLENT MANAGER, CALL ME COLLECT TONIGHT, wired Archie Moore. Pete Rademacher, an ex-Olympic champion who was knocked out by Patterson in his pro debut, wanted to manage Clay. So did Patterson's manager, Cus D'Amato. But Cassius was looking for something classier. At first, Sportsman Billy Reynolds seemed to have the inside track. There was only one catch: Reynolds wanted to give Sergeant Martin "a piece of the action." Clay...
...investment of its own businessmen comes from the capital market. The Dutch and the Swiss both clamp ceilings on what they will lend. Most German interest rates are so high-and bankers demand so much control over companies that they lend to-that earlier this year the prosperous Neckermann mail-order house sought almost all of a $10 million loan outside Germany ($1.2 million in the U.S.) to keep out of the bankers' clutches...
...hour day, carries pencil and paper on which he jots streams of ideas in shorthand, commands instantaneous action from his political underlings. "He keeps prodding you all the time," says one. He has thousands of friends, but few close ones. "He's like a post office clerk sorting mail," says one associate. "He keeps men in slots. In a general human sense of trusting somebody, the only person really close to him is his wife." Daley's entire attention is devoted to Chicago and to every facet of the city's life. "Ever been to a ball...