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...backlog of packages that has piled up since the rail strike began last week will be cleared Monday, the Harvard Square Post Office announced last night. The local station received permission to accept and send parcel post shipments yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square P.O. Raises Rail Packages Ban | 2/10/1951 | See Source »

...York, a blunt physical culturist submitted his candidates for the ten most beautiful women in America "if they would only lose ten pounds." Among them-Cinemactress Jane Russell, "four inches too big through the pectoralis muscles, both major and minor"; Actress Denise (Pardon Our French) Parcel, "one of the sexiest figures ever to grace our shores, but she's still ten pounds too sexy"; Tallulah Bankhead, "too much around the rectus abdominis region"; Anne (Kiss Me, Kate) Jeffreys, "a reduction in the gluteus muscles, both maximus and medius, is indicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Chosen Few | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...package called One Hour in Wonderland. Filmed in ten days at the Disney Studio in Burbank, Calif., the show had a plot line (a Christmas party on a sound stage), supporting actors (Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Bobby Driscoll), a jazz band and a parcel of applauding teen-agers (including Disney's two daughters, aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Exploitation | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

Said Johnson: "I realize that many of these attacks upon me, like many of the attacks upon the Secretary of State, are primarily political . . . with an eye to the November elections. This is all part & parcel of the democratic process and I would not suggest that it should be otherwise-but I think that it is important to recognize it for what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Albatrosses | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...different." He quit Norway at 17 to study at Minnesota's Augsburg College, later got a degree in civil engineering at the University of Minnesota. After a World War I stint as a lieutenant (he got his citizenship while in uniform) Sverdrup teamed up with John Ira Parcel, one of his old professors at Minnesota, to tackle big construction jobs. They built nine bridges over the Missouri River, four across the Mississippi, another over Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks and one over the locks of the Panama Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: A Norseman Named Leif | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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