Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly before the assassination of President Kennedy, the NRA helped Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (R-Conn.) draft another bit of gun legislation, which would have tightened up gun sales slightly. The bill would have required purchasers of mail order handguns to submit a notarized statement that they were over 18 and that their state allowed them to have a pistol...
...hoked-up hairiness as an invaluable aid in infiltrating hippie drug circles, and servicemen feel an added hank of hair increases chances that the weekend pass will be completed. According to one mother, her son and all his friends at Fort Sill, Okla., have ordered mustaches and beards by mail...
...case is that of Captain Svend T. Simonsen, who was the subject of a Business story (Feb. 2). The story noted how Simonsen, who emigrated to the U.S. at 15, had taught himself English and sailing, then taught others navigation while in the military service, before setting up a mail-order course in the nautical skill a year and a half ago. The story, said Simonsen, "completely changed the lives, fates and fortunes of the Simonsen family and many other people...
Until TIME'S story ran, Captain Simonsen, his wife and a staff of three were able to handle the courses in a modest office in Santa Barbara, cutting stencils and running off lessons on a mimeograph machine. As a result of the story, their mail tripled, monthly enrollment in the navigation course more than doubled, franchise and translation requests came in from Europe and Africa, and sales of a sextant they supply to students went up dramatically. The Simonsens are now expanding business to include a "Nautical Book a Month Club," an air-navigation course, and sales of other...
Secret Success. Widest-ranging among the Chicago collectors is Morton Neumann, 69, owner of a small mail-order cosmetics house, and none of the collectors mystifies his rivals more. Not that they fault his taste. The living room of Neumann's town house is festooned with Picassos, the dining room with Miros, and the former state dining room with a history of postwar U.S. art. The mystery is how Neumann goes about making his selections. Even among art dealers, he is known for the hard bargains he drives rather than for esthetic likes or dislikes. Despite Neumann...