Word: postmarks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letters, two of them or winthrop House stationery, and one with a military postmark, date from the early forties and mention Elsie's a clambake on Cape Cod, an intramural swim meet and a date with Ethel for the Yale basketball game. "School work was never discussed," said Henning P. Gutman '82 who found the letters on the topshelf of a closet in Winthrop "way in the back where you had to jump up to reach...
Keeping this in mind, I now turn to Exhibit A, an anonymous letter with a Philadelphia postmark that reached the Sports Cube today. It read simply...
...surrounding the will's discovery were mysterious. As a public relations executive of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) was sorting through the mail on his desk one afternoon, he came upon a tattered yellow envelope. The envelope, bearing a partly illegible Las Vegas postmark, was addressed to Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Mormon church. Inside the first envelope was a smaller one that bore instructions written in a large scrawl. They ordered Kimball to deliver the enclosed will to legal authorities in Clark County, Nev., "after my death or disappearance." It was signed...
...enough provisions on board to last until Christmas. They had set up a mini-government complete with premier and ministers in charge of administration, maintenance, security, information, leisure, domestic life and social and medical problems. They were also publishing a daily newspaper and had even devised a special postmark for their mail. Apparently they were working even harder than usual to keep the France in tiptop shape. But they rejected a call by Premier Jacques Chirac to end the strike and resume talks. "We've heard all that before," said a spokesman for the crew. "We'll stay...
...Nora Murray, 51, a career civil service worker in the British embassy in Washington, was opening the weekend's accumulation of mail early last Monday morning when she came across a manila envelope addressed to a former military attache. The letter bore a United Kingdom postmark, indicating that it had been sent through the British army postal service. Other than that the letter was slightly heavier and thicker than most letters, she noticed nothing unusual about it. When Mrs. Murray opened the envelope, a spring-loaded bomb blew off her left hand, sprayed pellets into her face and arms...