Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Died. Remy Leclerc, 62, Paris' only bearded traffic cop, to whose post at the busy Porte Saint-Denis devout tourists for years repaired in order to touch his long whiskers for luck; in Paris. A noted painter of old Paris, he once held a one-man show at the Police Salon...
...woman tourist spied a skinny old nag slumped neglectedly against a fence post near Charleston, wrote a beseeching letter to South Carolina's vigorous, Klan-cracking Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank. The Governor looked into the matter, offered a home for the aged horse at the Executive Mansion. Vowed he: "I love horses and everything connected with wild life. We'll never shoot him, I promise. Don't let the horse down...
Meanwhile Manhattanites, who were prepared to dismiss Frederick Stock's orchestra with kindly condescension, got the jolt of their symphonic season. Admitted the Post's Critic Samuel Chotzinoff: "In the balance between its choirs the Chicagoans conform to the best standards set by the country's major orchestras." Crowed Critic Thomson: "Mr. Stock won his audience ... as he has won audiences for 35 years, by playing them music very beautifully, not by wowing them." At last week's end, the traveling Philharmonikers were still on the road. But back in Manhattan worried directors were sadly pondering...
First setback to Mr. Bernays' crusade came from an unexpected quarter-the U. S. Government. The Post Office Department refused to deliver his book at the book mail rate (1½c), said that it must go as parcel post (7 to 15?). Because it listed movies and pamphlets on democracy, with prices, the Post Office ruled that Speak Up For Democracy was advertising matter...
Like Henry Ford, who standardized automobiles and put them within reach of everybody, Emily Post made polite manners a commodity available to all by reducing them to a set of simple, exact rules. Today, at 67, Mrs. Post is still undisputed autocrat of U. S. etiquette. Mrs. Post has long had another ambition: to write a Blue Book for raising children. Last week it appeared: Children Are People (Funk & Wagnalls...