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...Postal Service today is a big business ($30 billion in annual revenues) as well as an enormous bureaucracy (780,000 employees). For months the Postal Service board has been looking for a replacement for outgoing Postmaster General Albert V. Casey, a former airline executive who streamlined an unwieldy management during his brief seven-month tenure. Last week the board picked Preston R. (Bob) Tisch, 60, president of Loews Corp. in New York City...
...Hall Editor: Cristina "Yes Joe, I'll write an ed piece" Coletta Friends of the Summer Times Editor: Maia "9 to 5" Harris Hackensack and Berkshires Editor: Jon "Pleeeese write a Confi Picce" Moses Kahn Social Secretary: Shari "I am going swimming" Rudavsky Classical Music Editor: Jim "Whaaaaaat" Schwartz Postal Director: Jim "ten more minutes" Solomon Communication Editor: Bruce "Take this job and..." Kluckhohn Janitor: Brentwood "aka Beej aka BJ" Martin Lunch at Grendels Editor: Dahlia "think conservative" Weinman Four-Color Advertising Manager: Mark "Please, take my business card" Diker Cadillac Editor: Mark "pimpmobile" Segel East Asian Editor...
...house of an aunt of a serviceman. Mixed in with some old socks in an Army duffel bag, they were discovered in June by Michael Minguez, an exterminator, and turned over to Raleigh Postmaster Ross Garulski. Last week during a ceremony at the Washington headquarters of the Postal Service, Postmaster General Albert Casey, himself a World War II veteran, was host to four of the surviving letter writers who had been located. "A most unusual affair," observed Casey, as he returned letters to the four senders...
...Postal officials, with the help of the Veterans Administration, will make an attempt to find all the letter writers. Because they were servicemen, they will be easier to find than the addressees. So far, 26 letters have been returned to eight veterans. Another has been forwarded to a deceased veteran's son, who was easily located: he is John Bowles, a postmaster in the state of Washington...
...most significant architect was an apostate from the older generation. Otto Wagner was, surely, the world's first great modernist. The MOMA show includes a fine display of his masterpiece, the steel-and-glass interior of the Postal Savings Bank (1904-06). It was an architectural space exuberantly of its age, right on the boundary between the classicized past and the industrialized future...