Word: mailing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...which TIME publishes this week. The Extra is to be delivered with the issue everywhere except Florida, parts of Texas and the Mountain and Pacific Coast States. To subscribers there, the Extra is being rushed by plane in the hope that it will be delivered separately in the same mail as the regular issue. But it is inevitable in an operation conducted at such speed and under such pressure that deliveries may be late in some areas...
...demarcation line that runs like a jagged wound across the face of France may look like a juridical fiction, but no frontier in the world is tougher to cross. To refugees, reporters and mail it opens and closes with an exasperating unpredict ability: it is harder to get a letter from Vichy to Paris than from Vichy to Timbuktu. Last week the U. S. saw its first copy of a partial solution: a standardized postcard with blanks to be filled in. Even with blanks it suggested the sufferings of Frenchmen today: " 194 .... in good health tired, .... slightly, gravely, ill, wounded...
From Latin America, NBC averages fan mail of 2,000 letters a month, CBS attracts about 1,000. Other letters come from all over the world. Broadcasting in French, Italian and German as well as Portuguese and Spanish, NBC informed Englishmen that their rations of bacon or butter were to be cut before it was known in London, tipped off listeners in Italy that Mussolini was leaving for Brenner Pass 13 hours before the trip was mentioned in Rome...
...swank Mayfair shops, "National Topcoat Week" followed "National Fur Week" and autumn buying continued brisk. Enough timid shoppers stay at home to have doubled the business of London mail-order firms since break of World War II, but a daily tide of some 5,000 shoppers and window-gazers flowed down Oxford Street last week. Most ignored air-raid alarms until German bombers were actually overhead and they dawdled and browsed over displays of goods ticketed "For Christmas," in no hurry to pick out presents. Outside famed Peter Robinson's, housewives queued up in a long line...
They Knew What They Wanted (RKO Radio). When Tony Patucci (Charles Laughton), a porky, affable Italian winegrower in California's Napa Valley, tries to patch up a quarrel between his ranch foreman (William Gargan) and his mail-order bride (Carole Lombard), he argues that "Peoples no should fight," then speaks a little preachment on friendliness. During the filming of this scene one hot day last July, sprightly, spindly, 27-year-old Director Garson Kanin objected to Laughton's delivery as too much Laughton, not enough Tony. A director-actor fight followed which had Hollywood gossips' pens wagging...