Word: postmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding your editorial on the Postmen ("Phony Express") I think you had a fine point, but I wonder why you did not suggest anything constructive to remedy the situation. The Postmen may be something of a nuisance when they come around demanding money for their Ball, but they perform a service for us and deserve every respect we can give them...
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor locked doors, nor tightfisted undergraduates can keep these couriers from selling tickets to the postmen's ball...
...this is not to say that the postmen don't need benefit dances, and that those who feel like buying tickets shouldn't. But the mailmen, under University regulation and under a University--Post Office agreement, do not belong in rooms, selling tickets. Therefore, if with tickets instead of letters, they appear at your door, you will be quite justified in slamming...
...back of each leaflet were listed wave lengths and schedules of major free-world stations broadcasting to Czechoslovakia. From Munich, Radio Free Europe urged Czech students, postmen, housewives, civil servants to pick up the leaflets and distribute them as widely as possible...
...headaches. We were victimized from distant places by the foibles of nature and of man. Our Buenos Aires subscribers complained enough to make us realize that a July snow over high Andean peaks can ground TIME-carrying planes. Elsewhere, similar protests led us to the certain knowledge that some postmen liked to "collect" American stamps and magazines. Then there were customs, censorship and currency, all subject to violent and sudden change...