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Last week the stockholders of Container Corp. of America received a printed postcard from their company, beginning with the well-worn refrain: "It is our policy to give our stockholders full information at all times. . . ." Prepared to slog through the usual corporate platitudes, Container stockholders opened their eyes wide at what followed: "We recognize that while matters of considerable importance will be submitted at the Annual Stockholders' Meeting in Chicago it may be difficult or impossible for many of our Eastern stockholders to attend this meeting because of distances involved. Therefore, I cordially invite you, or your duly accredited...
Next morning, after a breakfast of sausages, hot rolls, honey and coffee, came a spasm of postcard-writing. One Hans Hinrichs proudly got off 200 in jig-time by means of a rubber stamp saying: "Greetings from mid-ocean and mid-heaven." Passenger Murray Simon related his adventures in 1910 as navigator on the airship America, which set out from Atlantic City, came down 1,000 miles at sea on the first attempt to cross by dirigible...
Envelopes containing an official invitation to participate in the Tercentenary Celebration next September, a "Programme of the Tercentenary Days" issued by Thomas H. Quinn '36 and John B. Bowditch '37, Co-chairmen of the Undergraduate Committee, and a return postcard, have been sent to all Juniors, Sophomores, and Freshmen...
...forceful originality. Reporting Antony's convalescence from measles, his father wrote: "Antony has had a very good day and is quite peaceful. He asked for buttered eggs, sardines & blood!" Day before he was sent to boarding school he kept repeating, "Life is hard!" but his first postcard was reassuring: "I am just going out to play footer. I am getting on very well. I have not made many enimas, much love." From his first school Antony went on to Eton, where he spent six happy years, getting into scrapes, making numerous friends, winning prizes for both scholarship and athletics...
Departmental Ditties were dashed off in India and printed by Cub Reporter Kipling himself in spare moments, then sold by postcard solicitation to Pukka Sahibs with an ease which made Salesman Kipling scoff contemptuously in later years when fashionable publishers tried to cry into his ale about the "risks" they say they take. He took his own risks by striking out around the world, landing in California and being turned down by editors all the way across the U. S. and back to England. Then suddenly his work caught on and from a deep trunk crammed with Indian yarns...