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This choice is particularly odd since the film is about the kind of naif Capra adored and Sturges affectionately satirized. His name is Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) and he's plucked out of the mailroom and made president of Hudsucker Industries when its founder (Charles Durning) commits spectacular suicide. You can imagine either Jimmy Stewart or Eddie Bracken in the part, but Robbins has a tricky modernist charm all his own. And you can just as easily imagine Edward Arnold as the evil genius of the board of directors, Sidney J. Mussburger, although Paul Newman brings a sprightly spite...
Luckily my supervisor was able to have the letter yanked before it left the Senate mailroom. When she pulled me aside to tell me what had happened, my face went white and I fell back against the wall as she warned me to never let this happen again. The press had a field day, she reminded me, with that White House postcard that a volunteer had seen fit to use for their own opinion on homosexuality...
...delivery system became possible when Harvard opened a mailroom for first-years in the Science Center last fall. Now that all students get their mail at one of Harvard's mailrooms, Mail Services can make bulk deliveries...
Moore said the Science Center mailroom was the last to open. "Someone should have broken a bottle of champagne or something on that when it opened," she said
...Mailroom workers opened the boxes to demonstrate that mailboxes are only secure when completely locked--and are only completely locked when students turn their combination dials repeatedly...