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...Americans to spend 4;? in postage for their avalanche of Christmas cards (rather than the still permissible 3? for unsealed envelopes), but also "to supply a colorful fillip" to the greeting business. As usual, the bureaucrats did not consider that good and original design-or even the tiniest hint that Christmas is, after all, Christ's birthday-might be a necessary ingredient, fillip-wise...
Verse is not the usual medium through which Russia's masters express themselves, but last week an obvious political hint was to be found in a poem...
Denson's vague hint that a jurisdictional dispute prompted his resignation was confirmed by Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney in another bulletin board advisory that went up shortly after Denson's. "The management of the paper has found it desirable to propose certain organizational changes as well as changes in the operating procedure," Whitney wrote. "These proposals were rejected by Mr. Denson, and he is no longer with the Herald Tribune...
From almost that moment, tubby, quippy Mike Di Salle seemed a changed man. He quarreled with everyone. He submitted a huge budget without giving a hint about how the money could be raised to meet it; he vetoed one whole appropriations package passed by the legislature. He got into a fruitless fuss with Ray Miller, Cleveland's Democratic boss. For a while he said that he would not seek reelection, changed his mind, beat Attorney General Mark McElroy in the primary by a bare 33,000 votes...
...amethyst bead, a gem, and a beautiful gold coin of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (408-450 A.D.)--found hidden under a stone weight in the collonade on the opposite side of the street --hint that the "Jewellers' Row" of Sardis was nearby...