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Offensive. In Topeka, Kans., postmen, who take barks and bites along their routes in their stride, were justifiably annoyed when a small, impatient dog invaded the post office, bit a letter carrier...
...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...
...paper had grown to B-29 proportions; manufacturers with plenty of orders for planes, engines and accessories were spending fat chunks of their profits for advertising. Some journals averaged more than 200 advertising pages a month, sent off volumes of 500-page heft to be lugged about by sweating postmen. Then came peace, and a fall-off in horsepower...
...Windsor Hotel, strolled into the littered city room of the old Evening Post. At his side was a new-found friend, swarthy, wax-mustached Frederick. Gilmer Bonfils (pronounced bonn-fees), a dashing promoter who had just cleaned up $800,000 in the notorious "Little Louisiana" lottery. To weary Postmen playing poker, Harry Tammen drawled: "Don't let us disturb you but we've just taken over this paper...
Last week in Denver, Postmen held their breaths. Their paper-with-a-past might have a future after...