Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Immortals of the sedate Académie Française recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand...
...University of California Medical Center, but 1,200 students turned out for it, cramming the 500-capacity auditorium and spilling over into another building to follow the proceedings on closed-circuit television. Thousands of plain citizens watched it on educational station KQED and swamped the station with mail...
Dotty Peer. There his success has been nothing short of smashing. It is now the most popular feature in the paper. Mail comes in from all over, some from the streetwalkers who still remember him fondly from his investigational days. Boofy keeps in touch with them...
...reviews, few New Yorkers could read them-and the show closed after 33 performances. To avoid the same fate. Bert Lahr's comedy. The Beauty Part, has been spending three times the normal advertising budget to conduct contests for free tickets and hire a skywriting plane. Without newspapers, mail orders for Broadway tickets are way down; Beauty Part orders trickle in at only about 70 a day when there should be 300. Cleveland's theaters, after suffering a 20% loss of patrons in December, revived somewhat after a makeshift daily called the Cleveland Record began publishing with...
...most spectacular outfit was sported by Diana Wood, 35, pretty wife of Britain's Minister of Power Richard Wood. When an outbreak of power failures brought a storm of complaints to the Power Ministry, Mrs. Wood helped raise at least some temperatures by posing for the Daily Mail in her cold-weather costume: a turtleneck sweater, fishnet stockings, and skintight, black woolen knee-length panties...