Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone who has ever written a letter to the editors already knows, TIME'S weekly contract with its readers does not end once the magazine goes to press. Every one of the 1,000 or more letters that arrive in the mail each week receives a reply from TIME'S Letters Department, which is headed by Maria Luisa Cisneros and staffed by 13 assistants. The letters department also performs a less well-known task: answering the 150 or so letters a week from people requesting information-some additional bit of elaboration or an answer to a question. That...
...charming, even though some questioned his legal talents. As U.S. Attorney, he had the distinction of convicting Raymond Patriarca, a New England Cosa Nostra boss, on two counts of conspiracy to murder. Yet he was blamed for allowing four defendants to escape punishment for the $ 1,551,277 Plymouth mail robbery. The Kennedy disaster was a hard blow professionally, since it was only last May that Markham resigned as U.S. Attorney to join a private law firm in Boston. Now his legal reputation is at least diminished...
THREE SUMMERSONGS are three one-acters, including Jules Feiffer's The Unexpurgated Memoirs of Bernard Mergen-deiler, The Nine O'Clock Mail, a comic study of obsession with the U.S. Post Office by Howard Sackler (The Great White Hope), and Slawomir Mrozek's Out at Sea, a parody on Polish politics. Craft Experimental Theater, Brookline, Mass. Through...
...kind of court: a panel of 104 reasonably literate Americans -including writers, scholars, editors and a U.S. Senator-who spent the past four years judging correct word usage for American Heritage's forthcoming dictionary, which will be published jointly with Houghton Mifflin Co. next month. Polled by mail on lists of questionable words, the panelists reached a rough consensus that will be tabulated in the dictionary text. Whatever the final result, the polling process was a Gallup through contemporary English and its linguistic hurdles...
Bertex has since begun advertising in underground newspapers and the Saturday Review. The shirts will continue to be sold exclusively by mail order, Kaplan said. "The [Harvard] Coop wanted no part of the business and threw me out on my ear," he said...