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Many parents declare that the children don't even learn to read handwriting. Mrs. Marion Wilkens, after making the "shocking" discovery that her son could not read a postcard she had sent from Hawaii, founded the "Parents Research Committee" to investigate. The Committee learned that a high school boy had nearly lost his job in a grocery store because he could not read a customer's written order. A mother stated that she sent her little girls to parochial school because "they weren't learning handwriting in public school's." And another parent admitted she was mortified that...
...Being an old admirer of Frank Lloyd Wright, I was thrilled to read about the great retrospective show of his work in TIME [Nov. 9]. Until now I knew the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, or the famous "Fallingwater" only from postcard-size photos and illustrations . . . Wouldn't it be a good idea to give South America a chance to see this show of Wright's work...
Along with the ticket Gabriele received a postcard bearing the same number: a free ticket to a tie-in lottery run by a film company. Gabriele wrote his name and address on the postcard and mailed it off to Rome-but without the stamp. A few days later, while he was on holiday at the coastal town of Recco, a pickpocket got Gabriele's wallet, containing some $24 and ticket...
With his stylus of sharpened reed, the physician made neat, wedge-shaped marks on a clay tablet, carefully compiling a pharmacopoeia. His calligraphy was better than most doctors': he got more than a dozen formulas on the two sides of a tablet little bigger than a modern picture postcard. Then the sands of the desert covered the great Sumerian city of Nippur (90 miles southeast of Babylon), and the physician's secrets were lost for thousands of years...
...Ruhr's industrial workers were returning from paid vacations. Half a million Germans traveled outside their country in the first six months of 1953, many of them in the humpbacked little Volkswagen that are driving British cars off Central Europe's roads. Millions more camped by picture-postcard rivers or along the Baltic shores. Germans pointed Leicas at Rome's Colosseum, Istanbul's bazaars, Granada's Alhambra. Their wives thumbed the lingerie in the Faubourg St. Honoré, where Parisian shopkeepers endured the hated language for the sake of the Deutsche mark. Richer folk drove...