Word: postcard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Rayinski marched into court with his saxophone (in case proof were needed of his talent), a briefcase (stuffed with documents setting forth the legal rights of street musicians) and a big display board on which was tacked a postcard which read: "You are certainly the most extraordinary virtuoso since Paganini ... If you can stop the abominable jazzers' practice of playing the saxophone as con sordino [i.e., muted] and as disorderly as possible, you will be a great benefactor as well as a great player...
...postcard was signed by a onetime music critic, George Bernard Shaw, who had had a long talk with Rayinski one day after hearing him play outside Shaw's house in Ayot Saint Lawrence...
...urged by its Post Office and Civil Service committee to raise the cost of that American institution, the penny postcard...
Those who want to use the service should file their addresses by postcard when they are located at training camps or overseas. P.B.H. plans to send a complete list of other Harvard men in their areas to everyone who files his address...
Advertising Results. In Louisville, Robert Perry asked $1,525 damages from the Moskins Credit Clothing store: $25 for meals eaten out, plus $1,500 for temporary loss of his wife, who left him after misinterpreting a postcard sales-stunt which read, "Please call WA 1492 and ask for Carolyn...