Word: postcard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of your candidate and see. If it is the same, you will receive with TIME'S compliments a special certificate testifying that you have become a member of the Honorable Order of Contemporary Historians. Just write your selection (and your name and address) on a postcard and send it to: TIME Man of the Year Sweepstakes, Box 1959, New York 46, New York. All entries must be received before...
...aboard a boat bound for Port Said. On July 24, Donald sent his sister a letter from Isna, Egypt, saying that he and his companions were ready to cross the Nubian Desert, and adding confidently "Write me in Johannesburg." In Aswan next day, John Armstrong wrote his mother a postcard that said he would soon be in the Sudanese border town of Wadi Haifa. The four bought food and water to last three days and hired a Nubian boy to guide them through the desert...
...letter and the postcard were the last news to come from the expedition. Finally, after weeks of waiting, the boys' alarmed parents asked the State Department for help. Receiving a request from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, units...
...fight began last March, when United Artists mailed 2,268 postcard reproductions of the painting to editors, film and record distributors as a promotion stunt for a film about Goya and his great and good friend, the Duchess of Alba, supposedly the model for The Maja. The Post Office took one look, pronounced them obscene and seized them...
Smoothly troweled and thoroughly entertaining, North by Northwest wears its implausibilities lightly, bobs swiftly past colored picture postcard backgrounds from Madison Avenue to South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, the U.N. Secretariat to George Washington's wattles. As the story begins. Adman Gary Grant has little on his mind but Trendex and his waistline (he reminds himself to "think thin") until enemy agents mistake him for a U.S. counterspy and kidnap him from a cocktail lounge in the Hotel Plaza. Spy Ringleader James Mason (as polished and heavy as a Kremlin banister) invites Grant to spill all he knows...