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...show, made up of a series of episodes held together by little more than its comedian's abilities. He uses almost no dialogue for his effects, but in such scenes as an epic battle with tottering flag pole, and a drunken wrestling match between the postman and his bicycle, no words are necessary...
...postman was scarcely out of the door today when we threw away 43 pieces of bulk-rate mail. Increasing the postal rates on this bothersome junk would help our postmen and, most of all, the Post Office Department. They have to handle it and run up a deficit doing it. But this could never happen, since it would mean increasing rates on magazines and newspapers...
...slight tale, the play retains a good deal of Eudora Welty's delicate tailoring. It can be as chatty and dawdling as a rural postman. But as against the flails and wind machines that keep most Broadway comedies in motion, The Ponder Heart catches a fresh and genuine creative breeze. For the most part, too, it moves along without having to wear either the pretty-pretty ballet slippers of fantasy or the hobnailed boots of farce. In a good production, David Wayne's Uncle Daniel is outstanding: he plays the part, not with small studio strokes, but with...
First Things First. In Tauranga, New Zealand, Postman James Duncan, 41, was fined $56 after postoffice repairmen found under the floor boards 1,200 Christmas letters, which Duncan had hidden there when he realized that he did not have time to deliver the mail and attend a Christmas Eve party as well...
Appointed Rounds. In Atlanta, Postman Walter A. Smith entered the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, tiptoed up to the Rev. Charles Anders and handed him a special-delivery letter in the middle of a sermon, later explained when reprimanded: "I looked in and saw he wasn't praying...