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Double Dealing. In Manhattan, Kans., Mary Lou Deal and Mary Lou Deal, freshmen coeds at Kansas State College, took pity on the mailman, decided to room together...
...Michigan District, which is north of Detroit. An employee of the telephone company, he hardly gets off the telephone even after hours; on any evening he may receive between a dozen and two dozen calls from political workers. He has had 550 letters (350 from Ike fans), and his mailman, says Shaffer, is getting a little tired of the whole business. "Even my neighbors," reports Shaffer indignantly, "have tried to influence me while playing bridge or canasta...
This week, just before Sunday's 10 o'clock Mass, a special-delivery mailman brought a carefully wrapped package to Pastor Cioffi's rectory. The crowns were inside. There was no letter of explanation and contrition. Monsignor Cioffi needed none. He sped to the altar, told the news to his parishioners...
Hardened by the wind and ice that go with a Boston winter, the mailmen have managed to build up remarkable resistance to relatively mild cold shoulders. Also in their favor is the fact that they bring draft board notices, bills, checks, and the like. When the mailman shoves his foot in a University door, he is well aware of the importance of the U.S. Mail to the student he solicits...
...mail." They usually remark that "everyone else in the entry bought a ticket and don't you realize that your small deflated dollar is going to help old retired mailmen who need it much more than you do, I'm sure." If one stands still and says nothing, the mailman will also stand and wait. If one says he has no dollar to spare just now, the mailman will plunk his ticket on the nearest flat surface with the promise to come back for the dollar later. Some, perhaps, with iron wills and few correspondents are able to think...