Word: mail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visitors are not the Clinic's only problem. It also has to deal with all the crackpot mail that comes into the University. A couple of years ago an excited gentleman wrote in to report the discovery of 'the greatest psychological phenomena extant." He had discovered, he said, that he was being pursued by a group of tormentors with the "astounding, unheard of, utterly unbelievable occult powers" of projecting their voices like radio transmitters. It was quite a discovery, but the Clinic reaped the reward. That gentleman's case history is now required reading in a large psychology course...
...railway and airline offices on the Canadian side of the Canada-U.S. border many a U.S. citizen queued up last week and bought his ticket from a Canadian agent. In the same offices, almost every mail brought letters from the U.S. with orders and checks for plane and train tickets between U.S. points. More & more Americans were getting wise to the fact that they could get bargains in transportation by buying their tickets in Canada...
Long Shot. In Philadelphia, several days, after Bernard Goodis had lost a full ($32) wallet, he got it back empty in the mail, with a note: "I put your money on a horse; if it pays off I will return your...
...been announced how much money this pamphlet raised, but it did provide a steady flow of clippings and mail to Newman's office. Commented the Tulsa, Okla., Tribune, "Time was when Harvard was American...
When the title story in this collection of tales first appeared in The New Yorker, it brought forth a flood of mail. Few readers were sure they knew what the story meant, but it had dug its way into their minds...