Word: senders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Marilyn Monroe was buried last August, a black vase at the crypt in Hollywood's Westwood Memorial Park has been filled with fresh red roses. The cemetery's mortician finally identified the sender. He was Marilyn's second husband, Joe DiMaggio, 47, who requested simply: "Twice a week-forever...
...Cyrankiewicz, Politburo Member Edward Ochab and other top functionaries suddenly got a rash of Rabelaisian letters that mingled demands for greater intellectual freedom with obscene personal denunciations. Most of the letters, many of which were mimeographed, were mailed from the same Warsaw letter box, and police soon identified the sender: Novelist Jerzy Kornacki, 53, a protégé of the late Polish President, Boleslaw Bierut, and author of several proletarian novels (the best known: Hauling the Brick Carts). He is also an active member of Warsaw's Crooked Circle Club, a group of several hundred artists, teachers...
...that bore return addresses have been sent back unopened, and the committee will never know how much money it actually collected. The remaining letters have been sent to the dead letter office to be opened by postal employees. If the contents contain a clue to the sender, they will be returned. If not, unclaimed funds will go to the U.S. Treasury...
Unopened to the sender...
Inferior logs of sandalwood have already arrived at Luangprabang, the gifts of rich and poor alike. Each log bears the name and address of the sender, and will be piled on a hilltop in October to serve as a sweet-smelling funeral pyre for the dead King. When the royal tree is at last found, the news will be spread by couriers, bronze drums, temple gongs, buffalo-hide tom-toms and by telegraph...