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Happy Ending. In Auckland, N.Z., after a 48-year postal romance between New Zealander John Edgecumbe and Philadelphian Prudence Coker finally led to marriage, Mrs. Edgecumbe told reporters, "We hope all the fuss is over and we'll be able to settle down...
Jailed by the British in 1932 along with many other Congress leaders, Narayan conceived the idea of forming a Socialist group as a galvanizer within the Congress Party. After his release, he founded a union of railway workers with some 1,000,000 members, and also headed the postal workers...
TRUCKERS have presented the Post Office with a plan they say will save $85 million a year by shifting all mail from railroads to trucks for distances up to 300 miles. They argue that trucks are faster, cheaper and more flexible. Postal authorities seemed unimpressed by the plan since most big post offices are geared to rail service, are not set up to handle heavy truck traffic...
Slobs & Simpletons. Last week in Las Vegas, a federal grand jury indicted Greenspun under the postal laws on charges of mailing ''matter of an indecent character, tending to incite murder or assassination." As evidence, the indictment quoted a Greenspun column of last January: "Senator Joe McCarthy has to come to a violent end. Huey Long's death will be serene and peaceful compared with the demise of the sadistic bum from Wisconsin. Live by the sword and you die by the sword. Destroy people and they in turn must destroy you. The chances are that McCarthy will...
...indictment, Publisher Greenspun could thank Joe McCarthy. Three months ago, McCarthy's office sent the Greenspun column to the Post Office Department and asked whether the paper should lose its second-class mailing privileges for violating postal regulations. Later, said Post Office Solicitor Abe McGregor Goff, the Senator called and asked Goff not to press for criminal action, but to handle the case within the Post Office Department. But by that time it was too late; the case was already being pushed by U.S. Attorney Madison Graves in Nevada. (Vacationing at the Tucson home of Columnist Westbrook Pegler last...