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...announcement of Princess Margaret's pregnancy, most Britons expected Queen Elizabeth II to award a title to the baby's commoner father, Antony Armstrong-Jones. But although she honored 2,300 of her subjects on last week's annual list-including a dance-band leader, a mailman, a motorcycle racer and a lighthouse keeper-there was nary a mention of the Queen's brother...
...Andy Griffith Show (CBS) sets up the fellow who had No Time for Sergeants as a sort of one-man Southern town: he is the cop, justice of the peace, jailer, newspaper editor, coroner, sheriff, mechanic and mailman. As a drawling, broad-shouldered, curly-haired, grits-filled, engagingly handsome example of the U.S.'s vast natural resource of undeveloped intelligence, talented Comedian Griffith is often good for laughs, all of them canned...
...government official summons a black clerk and says, "Solomon, show this master where Room 207 is." In Johannesburg there are two separate bus systems, one for the whites and one for the nie blankes. But a black carrying a heavy sack of parcels at the behest of a white mailman automatically becomes white for the duration of their trip together...
...Dark of Night. In Rio de Janeiro, after learning that one U.S. mailman had been bitten by ten dogs in the course of his career, Postmaster Agelico Loureiso boasted: "Our rural carriers have often been bitten and even eaten by jaguars...
Back to foggy London after a month of Nassau sun, Elder (70) Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot and his youngish (32) wife (and former secretary) Valerie disembarked from the Queen Mary boat train. "It was glorious there," mused Eliot to a waiting Daily Mailman. "We had the place practically to ourselves. There was some young film star chap. Can't think of his name." Prompted Valerie: "It was Gary Cooper, dear...