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Details Follow. In Athens, Ga., two safecrackers were arrested by police just as they were about to mail a postcard to friends in Miami saying: "Business looks good here...
...month ago, a short, scholarly-looking man named Jack Lewis rented a shabby basement apartment on Manhattan's West 74th St. He and his wife were a quiet couple who had few callers and got no mail except for one lone postcard. It was from "Joe" in Haiti and said only, "Having a swell time." Lewis told the landlord that he was a statistical engineer, that he was gathering material for a book on mathematics. Henna-haired Mrs. Lewis, 42, never spoke to the neighbors...
...producer who had asked him for a play, William Saroyan scribbled his thanks and regrets on a postcard: "I do not believe any producer can afford to produce one of my plays. They are all potential failures, and my terms are unfair. Jim Dandy has been published (and unproduced) a long time. A great play; a surefire money-loser...
...exams are to teach as well as to test, the knowledge of their results must include far more than a grade scrawled on a postcard or machine-typed onto a form letter. Final exams take a tremendous amount of time from student as well as instructor; the return of these exams, even if only temporary, would do much to make that time expenditure more worthwhile...
...forward this year because of the February graduation of President Jay J. Meltzer '49. The elected officers will take office for a full cabinet meeting directly after the dinner and serve until the regular April elections can restore the status quo. Full members of PBH have been voting by postcard for two weeks...