Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comics are in full caper. One baggypants warns the guard of a nuthouse not to send any mail to Washington. "Why not?" asks the guard. "He's dead," replies the overripe banana, skittering into the wings. Seltzer bottles spew, leers are leered, strippers strip and strip. Ann Corio re-creates her "parade strip," fragrant in the memories of generations of Harvard graduates who used to attend her frequent symposia at Boston's Old Howard. When hefty Dolores Du Vaughan* undulates out of her costume and starts to give the proscenium arch the business, there are howls of "More...
Helped by the Law. A poor tenant farmer's son who had to quit high school to go to work in the mail room of a bank. Post by 1933 had saved $138, which, he used to organize the Pioneer American Life Insurance Co. in his home town of Haskell, Texas. The state's insurance laws in those days favored small local companies, and Post formed a mutual company, signed up almost everyone in town. The company grew fast during World War II, helped by a Post decision to insure G.I.s without disallowing benefits for death in combat...
...more than he is: a competent newsman, working diligently at his craft. Nixon's accolade left him in the uncomfortable position of a man who has, for no good reason, been irreparably separated from his peers. "I feel like calling the Times and telling them to mail me my paycheck," said Greenberg. "How can I go on working when Nixon has disparaged almost everybody else...
...fair presentation, giving both sides of a controversy." Commentator Smith professed surprise; he thought the discussion was "a little overbalanced in favor of Dick Nixon," and that Hiss, as one of Nixon's "Six Crises," had every right to appear. At week's end, Dick Nixon, whose mail had ballooned after the show, asked rhetorically. "What does an attack by one convicted perjurer mean when weighed on the scale against the thousands of wires and letters from patriotic Americans...
...tries and 16 straight extra points. Throwing the ball just often enough to keep enemy defenses opened up, Quarterback Bart Starr boasted the best completion percentage (63%) in the league. But with high-scoring (146 points last season) Halfback Hornung out of action, the man who carried the mail was log-legged, bull-headed Fullback Jim Taylor, who is without doubt the toughest player, pound for pound, in the National Football League...