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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time during his 39 years and 3 months of total post office service, he knew Harvard men personally, and he and his addressees were the best of friends. "There has been a change in attitude," Andy laments. "Students don't get acquainted with the letter carrier any more." In the old days, he remembers, "they would be waiting for the letter carrier." But tossing his regrets for the past aside, the retiring postman admits that the student body has improved since the days when he first started to deliver mail to Harvard. "They seem to be more industrious boys today...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Postman Andy Corr Retires | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

...three-year postponement, originally applied only to medical students and those in special scientific fields, will now be extended to post-graduate students working full-time in any recognized field at a degree-granting institution. It was pointed out that this new regulation will pertain only to Army R.O.T.C. and will have no effect upon the Air Force and Navy groups...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: ROTC Allows Delayed Tour Of Army Duty | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

Richard W. Colman, acting coach of the Princeton football team since the announcement of head coach Charlie Caldwell's leave of absence Monday, said last night that he hopes to see Caldwell back at his post "much sooner than the early newspaper reports have suggested...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Colman Hopes Caldwell Will Make Early Return | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Sept, 24--Senate investigators today challenged the credentials of James R. Hoffa and 89 other delegates to a Teamsters Union convention at which Hoffa hopes to win the post of president...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Hoffa Challenged | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

...eventually clamped down on the Kram brothers (the Post Office persuaded Benjamin and Henry-Max had quit the firm-to sign an affidavit promising to go out of business). Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, young Murray Kram, Max's son and Uncle Ben's assiduous pupil, was keeping the family's tin-plated platinum cup clanking. A bat-eared young man with the mournful features of a card player who has aces wired, Murray could not ask alms as a disabled vet, since he had not been in service. Instead, with the customary request for $1, he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Charity at Home | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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