Word: wards
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Similar services have sprung up in Charlotte, N.C., Northern Illinois and throughout the Midwest. In Northern California, National Postal Service last year delivered 84 million advertising circulars and other third-class mail for J.C. Penney, Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck, among other customers. N.P.S. was paid $33 per thousand pieces of mail, about $17 less than the USPS charges...
Horovitz's just-published Cappella, his first novel, is a strange mixture of forms; certainly not a novel in the ordinary sense. The story weaves around two characters--one young, one old--who lie in adjacent beds in a hospital surgical ward. A copyist assigned to note everything dictated by the young man, Byron, relates the story. But the copyist makes his task a greater one and copies diligently not only what Byron says, but what he thinks, and also what his roommate, the 70-year-old Cappella, says and thinks and does. The novel is this copyist's first...
...Home Journal. In the first of two excerpts from his forthcoming book, An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott writes that "Mother had performed her duty in marriage-five living children were testimony to that. She wanted no more, but her bland ignorance of how to ward off pregnancy left her no choice except abstinence." So, he contends, his mother had no sex with F.D.R. after 1916. Lash's book had recounted F.D.R.'s long-running affair with Eleanor's special secretary Lucy Page Mercer. Elliott Roosevelt now claims that his father had a hitherto...
...total of $11 million being spent on the two buildings comes exclusively from private donations. The $3 million paying for the new freshman dorm came from an anonymous donor, who authoritative sources have identified as Ward M. Canaday '07, a Toledo, Ohio, automobile and financial magnate...
Other such dramas have occurred recently, including the 1970 murder of the West German ambassador, Count Karl von Spreti, by Guatemalan guerrillas. Over the past five years, eight U.S. diplomats and embassy officials have been involved in kidnaping incidents. In January, Ambassador to Haiti Clinton Knox and Consul Ward Christensen were seized at gunpoint and released only after the Haitian government paid a ransom of $70,000 and freed twelve political prisoners...