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...personal attacks on himself, but was appalled when a Soviet book accused his first wife, Olga, of having worked for the Gestapo. She had actually been a partisan surgeon who died in agony after a Nazi attack. Stalin cut off trade between East European countries and Yugoslavia. Railway and postal services were reduced or suspended. Stalin's paranoia was so inflamed that between 1949 and 1952 he put tens of thousands of Communists in Eastern Europe on trial...
...Postal officials have indicated that they will ask the rate commission for the maximum allowable across-the-board temporary rate increase...
...statement in your Press section [Jan. 18] that second-class mailing rates will be raised by at least 50% this year is at variance with published statements of present Post Office Department officials as well as provisions of the new law under which the recently appointed Postal Rate Commission will operate...
Rising paper costs and an impending quantum jump in second-class postal rates are forcing shrinkage in the size of many U.S. magazines. Such LIFE-size books as Holiday and Boys Life have already been reduced to virtual TIME size. McCall's will go to the smaller format with its February issue. Last week Esquire announced that it too would shrink, starting in September...
...reasons are more economic than aesthetic; postage matters more than paper to the mass-circulation magazines. For those in financial straits, it is a matter of shrink or sink. Some time this year, a new, privately run U.S. Postal Service will raise second-class mailing rates by at least 50%, and probably by 100% over the next five years, to make second class pay its own way. Rates are based on weight; smaller magazines costless to mail...