Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banned in 1845 after a series of suicides and scandals stemming from huge losses, "chemmy" is now the main attraction in 50 casinos that have sprouted in London during the past half year, and police predict twice that number within a few months. Trumpeted the Daily Mail: MONTE CARLO MAKE WAY FOR LONDON...
...Frontier bustle gives Romagna less time than ever for his other consuming interests: his wife, his two children, chess (he has 140 games going simultaneously by mail), model shipbuilding and music. An accomplished pianist who plays nothing but Bach. Romagna has mastered 672 Bach compositions, sometimes working three hours over a single measure. He practices anywhere, whenever time permits, often going to heroic lengths: he once got seasick practicing aboard Truman's yacht Williamsburg-which was tied up at the dock...
...weighs an average 112 Ibs., so that flesh does not detract from fabric cut), and overpaid (no less than $25 an hour, as much as $120). Her working life is short-at 30 she may drop overnight from a cover on Vogue to a back page in a mail-order catalogue. Few of her breed are known by name except in the fashion world they rule and serve, and most of those so blessed (Grace Kelly, Suzy Parker, Jane Fonda and, this year, Pamela Tiffin) are quick to grab their identity and take it to Hollywood...
Like a spring being sprung, like a reverberating baseball bat, the Harvard Anti-Physics Society today sprang into existence with a manifesto which mysteriously appeared in the mail boxes of Physics 13 students. Its very come-on was a physics problem: "Was this week's hour exam the last straw...
Peddie conducts a mail-order campaign, concentrating to a great extent on athletes: "We use an annual report on Minnesota boys at Harvard to get a foot in the door.... We send it to the boys we have tips on, and then sit back and wait for a nibble," he said last spring. If a boy responds with so much as a thank-you, Peddie said, "We tell the school that so-and-so has expressed an interest in us, which is literally true, even if exaggerated...