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Just what is Widener worried about? Even if there should be a conflict, even if someone should desperately need an article in a volume a student has checked out, the library has only to recall the volume by postcard, the way it recalls other books...
That windfall of war was celebrated last week in the tranquil islands with the tintinnabulation of steel bands and church bells. A commemorative 6? airmail postcard-the first in U.S. history-was issued for the fortnight-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Transfer Day. Denmark sent officials and exhibits, and the Danish flag was hoisted again beside the old Government House. The islanders cavorted and caroused at horse races, baseball games, parades, masquerade parties and firework shows...
When crusty, 80-year-old Judith Pedlock visited London, she wrote a postcard to her daughter Gertrude reporting that the weather was rainy, that the stiffness had left her right knee, and that she was bringing back to the U.S. a Mr. Jacob Ellenbogan, whom she intended to marry. The news infuriated the wealthy Pedlock family down to the third and fourth generations. Mama must be off her rocker! It was all rather nasty, unhealthy, and yet somehow not un-Jewish-not that any of them really gave much of a damn about being Jewish. Then anger turned to consternation...
...Hong Kong ricksha boy or postcard vendor to name the biggest, busiest, most beneficent U.S. corpora tion, and chances are that he'll answer chop-chop. General Motors...
France's Jean-Jacques Lebel strolls through the crowd, inviting each spectator to close one eye. He holds up a pornographic picture to the other eye, strokes the closed eye with a feather, then invites the spectator to change eyes, holds up a postcard of Queen Elizabeth, and strokes the closed eye with a carrot. "Beautiful, Jean-Jacques," murmur the spectators...