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...emphasize the travails of the South, an integrationist postman named William Moore, walking from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Jackson, Miss, to protest segregation, was shot and killed on a lonely Alabama highway. President Kennedy called the slaying an ''outrageous crime," and Alabama's Wallace offered a $1,000 reward for the murderer's capture...
Last Thursday in Alabama someone shot William Moore, a white postman from Baltimore who was engaged in a one-man march through the South to protest racial segregation. Unarmed and unaccompanied, Moore provided an easy target for the Alabama marks-men. He died instantly...
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night poses so painful a threat to the U.S. postman as the common dog. Last year 7,372 mail carriers were bitten by Fido; many more were stayed by a snarl from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But the postman is about to snap back...
Barry Williams, a 6 ft., 5 in. postman, and backcourt aces Keith Sediesek and Bill Fegley were the big guns for the ball club. Williams, especially, should bolster the varsity next year. However, with Merle McClung and Bob Inman returning to the post spots, he may have trouble moving into the starting line...
...trip to Philadelphia, Postmaster General J. Edward Day offered some comments on an earlier Postmaster named Benjamin Franklin. Not a very good postman was Ben, said Day, with more humor than accuracy. Day, in effect, accused Franklin of nepotism (six relatives on the payroll), unfair business practices (plotting to bar the mails to a rival publisher), and, as a final shaft, "after landing this plum he left for England and stayed 18 years." Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club was not amused. "Franklin may have had some human failings," said a spokesman, ''but at least he was able...