Word: postcarded
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...letters are often sold not as literature but as the material relics of a modern saint, wrote George Bernard Shaw to a friend. "Often, some impecunious journalist asks me to refuse [his requests for material] on an insulting postcard, so that he can dispose of it to a collector for the price of a meal." That particular letter brought the price of a pretty good meal-$250-at an auction of G.B.S. letters and memorabilia at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. A total of $41,900 was paid for the 165 lots-including $4,250 for a packet...
When housewives chatter over mid-morning coffee at the Rexall drugstore in postcard-pretty New London, N.H., or their husbands banter beside their ailing cars at Kidder's Garage, there is little talk of Muskie, McGovern or McCloskey. Instead, there are complaints over rising taxes expected from a new sewage system and the costs of operating schools. In the paper-mill town of Berlin, Kelly's Pastry Shop now sells more doughnuts (7?) than turnovers (150?, as residents worry about living costs. "It takes two working now for a family to get what it needs," notes Mrs. Laura...
...international community of Hong Kong, few invitations are more coveted than the simple postcard reminder mailed once a month to 200 or so carefully chosen residents of the British Colony. The card requests their presence at cocktails, a European-style formal dinner, and a screening of Chinese films on the last Thursday of each month in a private dining room of the Mandarin Hotel. The recipients-journalists, businessmen, trade representatives and consular officials-seldom decline this summons. All of them are members of the Marco Polo Club, the world's only social organization in which Westerners can meet regularly...
Woodstock, Vt., is the very model of the picturesque New England country town. It has a tranquil village green, stately brick and stone houses, and a postcard vista of the ski slopes in the adjoining hills. So it is only natural that outside investors (notably Laurance Rockefeller) have bought property there, and that the population of 1,150 includes a sizable proportion of writers, artists and wealthy exurbanites...
Loyalty is a cardinal virtue with Beverly. Nowhere does she show it more strongly than with her family, particularly with Mama. When she made her debut at La Scala, long a dream of hers and Mama's, she wrote a postcard home that said: "We made it, Mom. You and I." There, in seven words, is the whole story of their remarkable bond...