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...Postal Troubles. Playboy has a professional sheen and a formula pitched at male adolescents of all ages, notably those on college campuses, where 25% of its copies are sold. There are breezy short stories, ribald classics, e.g., by Boccaccio, De Maupassant, articles on men's styles, bawdy cartoons, club-car jokes and limericks and a heaping helping of cheesecake, such as a full-color view of a "Playmate of the Month" (see MILESTONES), sometimes posed by its own staffers, e.g., Subscription Manager Janet Pilgrim, 21. The magazine whets readers' interest by first letting them see what each month...
...Osborne, communications are both occupation and preoccupation. He started in the business as a boy, delivering Postal telegrams at 1? a message in New York City. When the U.S. entered World War I he was a radio ham, tapping out Morse code on his do-it-yourself set. The National Guard quickly shipped him off to Old Point Comfort, Va. to help start a military radio school. Later, he threaded his way upward through the postwar mergers of telegraph and telephone companies. By 1951, just before he joined TIME, he was an operations and personnel executive for Western Union...
...Senate: ¶ Pigeonholed in a Post Office subcom mittee a House-approved bill to increase postal rates by some $430 million a year, e.g., from 3? to 4? per ounce for domestic first-class mail, 6? to 7? per ounce for domestic air mail, sizable in creases for second-class mail...
...Passed, in the House, by a 217-165 vote, an Administration bill-opposed by the Democratic leadership-to raise postal rates from 3? to 4? for first-class mail, 6? to 7? for domestic airmail, and by 30% to 120% for second-class mail. The bill, designed to wipe out the postal deficit by producing $430 million a year in new revenue, will probably be pigeonholed in the Senate...
...struggling Puerto Rican telephone company, built it into a $687 million communications empire that operates radiotelegraph circuits from Moscow to New Zealand, owns 33 manufacturing and research affiliates throughout the world. Behn came under fire from stock holders who charged that I.T. & T. should never have acquired ailing Postal Telegraph (which was sold to Western Union in 1943) or ventured into consumer-goods manufacturing, which turned out unprofitable. After a proxy fight in 1947, Behn relaxed his iron grip on the company, resigned as president in 1948. Following record 1955 sales of $448 million, I.T. & T. in the first quarter...