Word: postmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reynolds will demonstrate to the Library Committee that the University's failure to make special provisions for Lamont during exam period would be like the Post Office not making special arrangements during the Christmas rush season for extended hours, deliveries, and postmen...
Garden Clubs The Post started on its series right after the school board dropped Deputy Superintendent of Schools George Ebey (TIME, July 27) as too "controversial," even though there was never any evidence that he was a Communist or any question of his loyalty. Postmen knew that much of the protest against Ebey came from local women who had once helped prevent Pasadena's ex-Superintendent of Schools Willard E. Goslin ("A very controversial figure") from speaking in Houston. They had also helped force the schools to ban a U.N. essay contest. But when Newsman O'Leary began...
Step Saver. A right-hand-drive Jeep, the first such car to be made in the U.S. in 30 years, was produced by Willys Motors, Inc. It will be used by rural and suburban postmen for easy delivery to roadside mailboxes...
...most part, archaeologists are scholars who work among ruins and study in musty museums, surrounded by books and bones. But in the Southwest, almost everybody is an archaeologist: Girl Scouts, G.I.s, Indians and postmen all have the digging fever. Cowhands hunting for straying cattle hunt for dinosaur bones. Gatherers of pine nuts look in the debris of anthills for the tiny turquoise beads of vanished early Americans...
...Griffin, 53, moved in as editor-in-chief and named tough-talking Assistant City Editor J. J. (Joe) McManus, 55, managing editor. Star Reporter John Mannion, 43, became city editor. Fox promised that the Post would become a "lively, aggressive newspaper devoted to the public interest," and the new Postmen quickly made good on his promise. The Post's confusing "shotgun" makeup, which crowded a score or more stories on Page One by running only a few lines of some, gave way to fewer stories and a more eye-catching paper...