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Last week, like some two million other hard-pressed British mothers, Lillian Naylor went to the local post office, presented her order book and signed her name. Promptly Wisbech's postmistress (Lillian's widowed sister) handed her ?2 15s. ($11)-the Naylor family's weekly allotment under the new plan. Other mothers collected five shillings for each of their children under 14 except the eldest...
Finally Licked. In Luppitt, England, after 59 years, Mary Stamp quit being postmistress...
Cooks and maids of Rio de Janeiro were incensed. Ex-Provisional President José Linhares, they said, was creating unemployment. Before he handed over Guanabara Palace to incoming President Eurico Caspar Dutra last Jan. 31, he had made his colored cook Rosa an assistant postmistress. Then, being without a cook, he put up at the Copacabana Palace Hotel...
...Hollander's enterprise has also prodded lagging Kilkee lovers. Reported Mrs. Kay Haugh, village postmistress, last week: "Since Dick Bergman wrote for a Kilkee girl many young bachelors, courting for years, have proposed...
Variation on a Theme. To avoid confusion in identity, many a newborn Pubniconian gets a name of his own with his father's first name tacked on. Example: Allan, son of Brad d'Entremont, is called Allan-a-Brad. Even so, confusions are numerous. Postmistress Annie d'Entremont, with a letter to be delivered to William A. d'Entremont, can usually tell which of four such Williams should get it, but only by examining the handwriting on it, or noting the identity of the sender...