Word: murrays
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Shades of Wells Fargo and the old Pony Express. In cities throughout Oklahoma last week, a pair of young businessmen, Thomas Murray, 43, and Darrel Hinshaw, 31, were operating their own private postal system in direct competition with Uncle Sam-and making money at it too. No wonder. The U.S. Post Office these days is a monument to inefficiency, and week after week the catalogue of complaints grows fatter. Curious to learn what was in the badly battered package delivered by the postman, a Cleveland physician ripped off the wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended...
First-Class Third Class. Murray and Hinshaw decided that they could only do better. Last winter, on an investment of $2,000,000, they formed the Independent Postal System of America. Right now their corporation handles only third-class "junk" mail (which accounts for 27% of all mail), mainly in Oklahoma, with outlets in Tulsa, Ardmore and Oklahoma City, plus one in Dallas. Independent postmen pick up the mail, sort it at central clearinghouses, truck it to delivery routes. Then white-uniformed, bonded carriers trudge to each house, put the mail in plastic bags, which are hung on doorknobs (nobody...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. If the Bard and Beckett had ever collaborated on a play about what went on behind the scenes at Elsinore, this wry, existential comedy might have been the result. John Wood and Brian Murray are marvelously adept as Tom Stoppard's confused...
...earned a doctorate in philosophy from Fordham, and became a strong advocate of reform within the society. In 1957 he was named head of the Jesuits' Woodstock College, where he helped develop a brilliant staff of teaching theologians, which included the late Father John Courtney Murray. Three years ago, Sponga was named Maryland provincial, supervising 800 priests, lay brothers and seminarians...
...early spring of this year Murray the K was supposed to have been in England acting as MC at a show in the Bishopsgate theatre district of London. That fact has not been thoroughly researched...