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Fresh in from Avalon, Ohio (pronounced Uh-hia), to attend a corn-fed Manhattan postal convention, Evie (Geraldine Page) coyly introduces herself: "I'm a postmaster. Suppose I ought to say postmistress, but that sounds a bit racy." Desperately folksy, she calls the bellhop "Shorty," greets the switchboard operator with: "You sound as if your name ought to be Virginia...
...process, Mr. Gronouski said what we thought were some rather nice things about us: "Time Inc. has gone out of its way to cooperate with the department in carrying out its various programs. In many ways, your corporation has been a testing ground for new postal ideas. Now, all of the mail put into the postal system by Time Inc. is ZIP coded. The mailings are presorted by ZIP codes, thus saving the Post Office thousands of dollars each week. You have contributed significantly by encouraging other members of the business community to convert to ZIP coded mailings. Certainly...
...among other things, a convicted embezzler (of some $2,500 in postal funds), a monumental drunkard, an almost compulsive liar, and an addicted hemp smoker. More important, he was a disaster as Prime Minister. Although his party barely controlled less than one-fourth of the seats in Parliament, he refused to make the political compromises necessary to form a working coalition government, quickly alienated almost every important power base in the Congo. Headstrong, unstable and perpetually frenzied, Lumumba never even tried to govern. His army rebelled less than a week after he took office; his Belgian civil servants fled...
...year president. A Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-schooled accountant who is one-eighth Cherokee, Marshall got into communications accidentally by answering a help-wanted ad by All America Cables in the mistaken belief that it manufactured cables rather than sent them. After working up to executive vice president of Postal Telegraph, he came to Western Union in the 1943 merger that gave W.U. a monopoly on domestic telegraph business. When he became president in 1948, Western Union looked ready for the undertaker. With a creaking plant, antique methods and little research, it was losing money...
...killing to headquarters on Tippit's car radio, and almost immediately sirens whined through the neighborhood. Oswald paused in the doorway of a shoe store managed by one Johnny Calvin Brewer. Then, while Brewer watched, Oswald, disheveled and panting, ducked into the lobby of the Texas Theater. Cashier Julia Postal saw him, but when she heard the police sirens she stepped out of the box office. Brewer asked her if the man who had just entered the theater had bothered to pay for a ticket. "No, by golly, he didn't," said Mrs. Postal. She called the police. They came...