Word: posting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit fortnight ago to demonstrate some automated post office equipment, onetime Michigan Boss Summerfield decided to punch a few political buttons. At a fund-raising meeting of top Republicans at the Detroit Club, he unfolded his plan for restoring party amity. Oust liberal State Chairman Lawrence Lindemer, said Summerfield, and the depleted party treasury will soon be overflowing. "Nothing doing," exploded Ford, banging his fist on the inlaid mahogany table. Larry Lindemer is doing a first-rate job, and if Summerfield and his well-heeled friends intend to starve him out, then he. Ford, would personally see that the party...
...separate state. None of the three regions is likely to get the absolute majority needed to rule all Nigeria by itself, but a Northern-Eastern coalition could make Zik the first federal Prime Minister; the North's Sardauna appears to have his own eyes on the dignified post of Governor General...
...Newspaper Cartoonist Edmund Duffy when someone recently tried to invade his comfortable retirement at the end of a long and lustrous career. In 1948, after 24 award-studded years (three Pulitzer Prizes) with the Baltimore Sun, Duffy left to try a hand at magazine cartooning for the Saturday Evening Post, drifted briefly back to newspapers-New York City's transitory Star and the Long
Island Newsday-before vanishing from public view into an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side. This week, having dangled an irresistible bait, the Washington Post and Times Herald announced that it had lured Cartoonist Duffy, 60, out of hiding...
...least the next two months, hard-punching Duffy, who once drew Franklin D. Roosevelt's arm brandishing a blackjack over the U.S. Supreme Court, will fill in for the Post's liberal (and two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner) Cartoonist Herbert Lawrence ("Herblock") Block, 50, decommissioned last September by a heart attack. For a while the Post got along by running the work of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Bill Mauldin and others, but Post Publisher Philip Graham decided that Herblock needed a fulltime pinch hitter. Herblock agreed. "He went madly for the idea," said Graham...