Word: parcelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, Emma Bellows has lived on in the small Manhattan house where her husband had his studio. She has spent her time raising their two daughters, managing the fat parcel of canvases Painter Bellows left behind ("That's a full-time job, choosing varnishes, choosing frames"). By carefully supervised sales to important U.S. museums and collections, she has supported herself, helped establish her husband as one of America's favorite painters. "I won't let just anybody buy George's paintings," she says. "I want them placed where they can be seen...
Thomas S. Lamont '21 may not owe his success entirely to his work on the CRIMSON'S business board, but it helped. Business editors are part and parcel of a $100,000 going concern...
...whip were bookstores. A fortnight ago, he ordered that all imported books be kept unopened in specially sealed bags until customs men could inspect them for "contraband" literature. In Johannesburg, there was a single customs man to cover 25 booksellers. Harried by clamoring customers, their stores crammed with unopened parcels, the booksellers cried for "relaxation." Last week they got it. The government told the stores "you may receive your book parcels as freely" as before, but added an ominous note: "The department reserves the right to hold back an occasional parcel. . . for examination...
While the Western Allies offer Germany a large degree of sovereignty in return for military participation in N.A.T.O. the Russians continue trying to prevent this arrangement by offering as other tempting parcel--unity with East Germany...
...Included in 1950's losses: on third-class, $135,872,341; domestic air mail, $35,501,861; fourth-class (books, parcel post, etc.), $77,138,987; foreign mail, $84,684,189; money orders, $23,305,124; Government official mail, $37,265,145; non-postal services, $21,317,281; retroactive payments to railroads...