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...them members of private "post-office" chains. Typically, these stores accept packages for customers at locations that are more convenient than the outlets of traditional shipping companies like the United Parcel Service. And unlike U.P.S., the private post offices often sell stamps, rent P.O. boxes and even help customers wrap packages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SERVICES: Storefront Post Offices | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...with James Ivory, his directing partner, please, please to hurry up: time is short and money is shorter. So constant was the refrain on the English sets of their newest picture, Maurice, that when filming ended last month the cast set it to music and sang it at the wrap party, Shoot, Jim! Shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: View From Prospero's Island | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...wrap Spacewarp, settle down with another eggnog and consider the bounty under the tree. The regenerating myths of toys may have as many classical permutations as the collective unconscious, but the listings in most contemporary toy catalogs can be reduced to three basics. Spacewarp, for example, falls into a category that could be called . . . build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

This piece is, I swear it now, the last on the subject and as I tap it out on the keyboard, please know that I relate the following story not to perpetuate my own absurd tale but rather to wrap up the proceedings for the curious...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Return to Duluth | 12/16/1986 | See Source »

Harvard took less than an hour to wrap up its second consecutive triumph of the young season, losing only one set during the entire competition. Fern Ward's 15-4, 15-10, 15-8, decision over Brown's Laura Rich in the fifth match clinched the victory...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: W. Squash | 12/3/1986 | See Source »

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