Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subscriber to TIME, I receive each issue in the mail on Tuesday morning-this time on the morning...
...Unique Force. Yet the final mood of Marilyn Monroe is embarrassment. First taken by the world only as a vapid comedienne, she strove to become both an actress and an intellectual, and in death somehow became something more. As the London Daily Mail noted, her death has "impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." The arid, senseless argument that follows it-suicide or accident?-only heightens the general shame in a quibble over whether a token of death amounts to death itself. To say that she died while trying to live (the hand on the telephone) only avoids the issue...
Abortion Journey. New York City reported the first U.S. death of a thalidomide-deformed baby. Psychiatrist Richard H. Hoffmann imported the pills by mail from a German drug house for one patient, then gave it to others. One of these became pregnant. Her baby, born a fortnight ago, was severely malformed and lived only 41 minutes...
...mail-order catalogue, out last week, Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co. cut prices on 2,000 items. Women's nylon stockings were down from $3.90 to $2.88 for half a dozen pairs, bedspreads from $14.97 to $8.90. aluminum storm-screen doors from $33.90 to $22.90, portable TV sets from $137.95 to $119.90, food freezers from $219.95 to $188. The dip-down in the Ward catalogue's prices is one of many indications that prices of goods are soft throughout the country...
...Though he was a good friend of Senator McCarthy, Williams acknowledges that the grand inquisitor from Wisconsin "transgressed the rights of some witnesses." Williams defended his friend before the Senate committee that in 1954 cited McCarthy for contempt, and in making much of the assertion that McCarthy's mail had been inspected without his knowledge, concludes: "History must show in one of its more ironical paragraphs that McCarthy was himself a casualty of a congressional investigation that flouted the rules of fair play...