Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director Frank Corsaro. who emphasizes the sinister at the expense of the humorously macabre. In her first stage appearance after a dozen years of teaching, Stella Adler didn't seem quite ready for Madame Rosepettle. However, the Times conceded that the play was "hilarious," and the Daily Mail said of Kopit: "He writes like an angel or, to be more precise, like a mischievous cherub who has just had a highly diverting season in hell and is dying to tell all about...
...Among Chicago businessmen, President Modie Joseph Spiegel of Spiegel, Inc., the nation's third largest mail-order house, is known for unconventional shrewdness (he once cut his own salary in half because "I saw we were going to take a bath"). Now Modie Spiegel, restless and 60, has unfolded his most unconventional merchandising wrinkle yet: an offer to sell prescription drugs to members of Spiegel's "Budget Power Plan" by mail-and at cost. He calls it "a chance to perform a real service to customers." It may also, he concedes, have the incidental effect of increasing enrollment...
Stereo & Steaks. At his office, Goldwater may skim the Wall Street Journal and the Phoenix newspapers-he rarely reads the New York Times and gave up the liberal Washington Post because of its "slanted reporting"-before plunging into the mail. He tries to get home by 7, sips two or three bourbons and water while helping prepare dinner (usually steak). He fancies himself a cook, but sometimes lets his tastes run away with him. He once used peanut butter to the point that his sons dared him to shave with it; Barry did, "although I smelled like hell...
...NATION GASPS AT WIDE CONCESSIONS, headlined the Rand Daily Mail, and the head of the temperance movement cried, "I can see only evil arising from this measure . . . Africans don't drink to enjoy it . . . they drink to get drunk." Angriest of all were the shebeen queens, whose brimming vats of fermenting rotgut would become unsalable when their thirsty black customers finally could walk around the corner and buy the real stuff...
...PROMOTION provisions should be sharply changed so that U.S. publishers could not send in business reply cards and other subscription devices, and postal regulations on foreign second-class mail should be tightened in Canada's favor...