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...Koolish's enterprises to halt its "false and misleading" claims and other practices. One Koolish company, Westminster Life, sold mailorder insurance that offered payments of "up to $7,500" on premiums of only $1 a month for an entire family. The Chicago Better Business Bureau was told by postal inspectors that 67% of the death claims were rejected, and 24% brought payments of $10 or less. Among the small-print conditions on Westminster health inSurance: policyholders were insured against chicken pox, mumps and measles-provided they were over 60 and under 80. Westminster and Koolish were indicted for fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Winning Numbers | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...shipped home to New York. He had been office chief of transportation for General Ross, whose headquarters was in Paris after the liberation. Having had enough of the army, he remained a civilian for a surprisingly long time, two years, working in the registry department of the U. S. Postal Service. "The blood," however, get the best of him for a third time...

Author: By Frik Amfitheatrof, | Title: Drill Sergeant | 10/4/1952 | See Source »

Died. Frank J. Sensenbrenner, 87, onetime postal clerk who became president and chairman of the board of the Kimberly-Clark paper manufacturing corporation (first to develop Kleenex, Kotex, and a special ground-wood paper for rotogravure printing); in Neenah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Refresher Course. In Ludlow, England, Postal Clerk Edward O'Sullivan was chosen to attend classes in the detection of forged money orders, returned to his office and forged ?94 ($263) for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...Postal Regulations. In Ottawa, Canadian army brass issued an order prohibiting soldiers overseas from mailing to friends at home: "motor vehicles, airplanes, motorcycles, surgical and dental instruments and machine tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 21, 1952 | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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