Word: postcarder
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When the U.S. went to war, Charlie told the draft board he had a wife and two children. Then he sent the board a postcard announcing his death. Later he was seen on Central Avenue in a captain's uniform, smartly returning the salutes of passing enlisted men. At war's end he donned a veteran's button, began campaigning on G.I. political programs, and set his hopes on a City Council seat...
...postcard mailed in Washington to "New Ghost Town, Pa." last week, did not make the postmen think twice. It was promptly delivered in Pittsburgh. In the fourth week of George L. Mueller's power strike (TIME, Oct. 7), the nation's tenth city was not exactly ghostly. It was just ghastly...
Everything had a picture-postcard look: the walled city of Quebec, brooding on its cliff above the St. Lawrence; the Maxfield Parrish mountains of the Gaspe; storybook hamlets, and fishing fleets lying like a school of minnows in the bay. There were oxcarts and outdoor ovens, pea soup and acres of cod drying in the sun. And there was Montreal, second biggest French city in the world, with the biggest black market in Canada...
Special Delivery. In San Diego, John McGrath mailed a postcard in a garbage can, discovered his mistake, mailed a duplicate in a mail box; the first card was delivered first...
...Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts," the postcard said. It was mailed in Brooklyn, U.S.A. "I wonder," pondered Mrs. Madeline Sullivan of the University Information Office, "what this could be about? Trees, maybe? Or bums? Probably not an application for admission; most Brooklynites stayed in the Regular Army. Three squares a day, you know...