Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the direction of Lauren Preston, Teso's assistant, the department has already used its computer to issue over 80,000 summonses to 1971 violators, who will receive notices in the mail within the next week...
...overcome his fear of flying. Ever since 1942, when the billionaire was traveling by air between Chicago and Tulsa and his plane ran into a tornado, he has been scared. "It was the most frightening thing that ever happened to me," he confided last week to the London Daily Mail, adding that the pilot had not seen such weather in 26 years. Since then Getty has had to rely on such humdrum transport as yachts, private railroad cars and limousines. But safety can be monotonous, and when Getty decided to move permanently from England to his Malibu, Calif., estate this...
...apparently, is the proprietor. An ex-Army cook who started with $1,800 in 1946, he now gleefully watches some competitors approaching bankruptcy -while his business enjoys a six-figure gross, much of it in mail orders. Other kitchenware sellers may receive orders from out of town; only Bridge regularly gets them from Paris, where gourmets request recherche items like his tiny pea-size melon scoops. Yet despite the curmudgeonly manner, Bridge has permitted success to go only to his wallet, not his head. He refuses to open a branch store, for example, because quality controls could not be maintained...
...initial move is to be ordained and get a church charter-a relatively easy gambit. Hensley's Universal Life Church in Modesto, Calif., will do the honors by mail for a $2 ordination charge and a monthly $2 chartering fee. Then, to qualify for the tax break, aspiring holy men-or women-must take a vow of poverty, conduct almost any kind of religious services, turn over their income to their church, and meet the IRS's paperwork requirements. In return, the church can grant them a modest, tax-free living allowance (IRS might pass...
...block or so away from the infamous bar in George Higgins' The Friends of Eddie Coyle, could be Philip Marlowe's in Los Angeles: "Second floor front, one room with a desk file cabinet and two chairs in case Mrs. Onassis came in with her husband, mail slot and pile of mail." L.A. has long been the culture capital of suspense fiction. Boston may now be moving up. In Parker's God Save the Child, kidnapers instruct that the ransom be put in a green book bag - a touch as evocative of Boston as the swan boats...