Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week's Press section carries a story on the increase in postal rates, which concerns not only your own use of the mail but also your continued access to the information and enjoyment provided by magazines like ours. For, as the story explains, the increase in postal rates creates a critical challenge to magazine publishing. The story does not explain what Time Inc. has done in tne Past to help the post office speed delivery of your magazines, and what we continue to do with most of the 750 million pieces we mail each year...
...letters to TIME crossed the desk of Letters Chief Maria Luisa Cisneros. Letters about Nation stories led the lists, as always, and our Watergate stories attracted the most attention. A January 1973 profile of a little-known former CIA agent named E. Howard Hunt attracted a trickle of mail from seven readers. In subsequent months G. Gordon Liddy, L. Patrick Gray, John Dean and James McCord would all appear on TIME covers, and the response to Watergate would grow to a flood of 23,000 letters. Wrote one critic of the President, "When the whole bushel of apples is rotten...
Though the Watergate serial dominated our mail, our Jan. 22 cover on Marlon Brando's controversial film, Last Tango in Paris, elicited an unprecedented 12,000 letters for a single story, surpassing the number received for the previous record holder, the cover story Is God Dead?, in 1966. A story need not be cover-length, however, to stir up a big response. A short item in People [April 2] on Billy Graham drew scores of letters, most of which criticized the evangelist's suggestion that rapists be castrated. "Bless Billy Graham for making virtue secure," wrote one subscriber...
...Died. Satyendranath Bose, 80, Indian physicist who, though he had never met Albert Einstein, collaborated by mail in 1924-25 on the Bose-Einstein Theory, a cornerstone in the development of modern quantum physics; in Calcutta...
...Guilt. His cartoons are syndicated in 32 papers, and Wright admits that much of his mail taxes him with cruelty to the President. "I try to explain," Wright says, "that the only weapon I have is distortion and exaggeration, and I ask them whether they agree or disagree with the point that I was trying to make." But Wright, a Democrat who lampooned Lyndon Johnson, harbors no guilt: "I don't believe it's possible to be too rough on President Nixon or on any Administration that has sought to get away with some of the things that...