Word: mailboxes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...getting his ten-year prison sentence reduced, written the letter to please his jailers? Had they even written the letter for him? No one could say, for Powers himself was nowhere in sight, and the New York Times could find no trace of any such letter in its mailbox...
...awestruck salesman had seen one of the world's fastest moving landmarks, a man who seems to have no permanent address but is often called "The Human Mailbox," an earth-blanketing pressagent more interesting than many of his clients. Onetime Manhattan p.r. man and for 20 years critic and columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, Irving Hoffman disengaged himself in 1952, began to roam all continents as a sort of gypsy flack. He is or has been everybody's buddy-from Wendell Willkie to Polly Adler, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, ferry boat captains, prostitutes, J. Edgar Hoover, the Maharani...