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E-10PllZZles, features THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Wednesday, February 24, 1988 At 24, postal mascot has lost his ZIP The New Deal ward Day and Frederick Kappel, chairman of Kappel, in discussing problems had in promoting its new system of telephone area codes, suggested that the Postal Service devise a mascot of some kind. A short time later, he was born of the brow of New York artist Harold Wilson. A man of many changes Originally christened Mr. P.O. Zone, Mr.

ZIP had his name changed when the Postal Service settled on "Zone Improvement Program" as the official name for its new five-digit address system. He made his first public appearance on the Sam Houston stamp in January, 1964. In April, 1964, he was seen in a standing position on the World's Fair stamp. But three months later, Mr. ZIP's entire body was amputated when he was reduced to just a head on the Nevada Statehood stamp.

Later surgery reunited his head with his stick-figure body. BY JEFF KUNERTH Orlando Sentinel His face once adorned post offices across the county. He lives in obscurity now, but at one time his visage appeared in newspapers and on television. In his prime, he palled around with Ethel Merman. But that was long ago.

Today, his name evokes only vague recollections from a public that so quickly forgets. Mr. ZIP, the goofy-grinning mascot of the U.S. Postal Service, is retired at the age of 24. The guy who helped millions of Americans convert to the ZIP code address system outlived his usefulness.

"Mr. ZIP played a vital role in the promotion of ZIP codes," Postal Service spokesman Ralph Stewart said. "But now with 98 of the mail carrying ZIP codes, his semi-retirement is well deserved." Mr. ZIP was conceived in 1963 during a casual conversation between Postmaster General J. Ed At the peak of his public service, Mr.

ZIP was the subject of a "ZIP-a-di-doo-da" radio jingle sung by Ethel Merman. Many regard it as his finest hour. The introduction of computers and high-tech mail-moving equipment in the 1970s convinced postal authorities that Mr. ZIP no longer fit the Postal Service's image. Like many long-time employees, he seemed a little too old-fashioned for his bosses.

"He just didn't go along with the technological image we were trying to portray," postal spokesman Steve Corker said. "Our industry is so highly computerized that a comic figure just didn't fit." A shadow of his former self When nine-digit ZIP codes were introduced in 1983, the Postal Service felt Mr. ZIP wasn't up to the challenge. They relegated him to a small corner on sheets of stamps a token position of little importance except to keep Mr. ZIP's registered trademark status alive.

"Mr. ZIP is still breathing," Corker said. "His activity schedule is not as much as it was, but he's still on call. He's there if and when we want him." The implication is that Mr. ZIP could, at some point, come out of retirement to become the Sugar Ray Leonard of trademarks.

As far as anyone knows, Mr. ZIP never married, although he has long been linked to Miss Place Stamp Here. Associates and strangers alike always refer to him as Mr. ZIP. Only his closest friends call him Zippy.

When not hanging out on the corner of a sheet of stamps, Mr. ZIP lives in a retirement community somewhere in Florida. Once a week he plays cards with the Frito Bandito, Bucky Beaver and Speedy Alka Seltzer. To supplement his meager federal pension, Mr. ZIP addresses envelopes at home.

He remains actively involved in the national philatelic movement. Content to live a quiet life out of the limelight, Mr. ZIP declined all requests for an interview. ings, the hand would be worth a strong two-bid. However opening an artificial two clubs (playing weak two-bids) and then rebidding three diamonds would consume a lot of bidding room.

The two-heart rebid, a forcing "reverse," was a reasonable temporizing bid on the way to raising spades. After South supported hearts, North knew he had at least five spades because responder should always bid one heart with 4-4 in the majors. Perhaps South could have slowed things down a bit by rebidding only three hearts. Declarer justified the bidding in the play, though. After winning the first trick with the king of trumps, he cashed the ace of clubs and then led a heart to the queen and West's ace.

Dummy's ace won the trump return, and declarer led a heart to the jack in order to ruff a club. When declarer led a low diamond from dummy, East discarded a club, and declarer ruffed low. After drawing East's last trump, declarer returned to the king of hearts to discard two clubs on the high diamonds. At the end declarer still had a trump to return to hand and cash the 10 of hearts, making six. Note that if declarer had tried to cash a high diamond for club discard earlier in the play, he would have been rudely surprised when East ruffed and killed the discard.

BY MIKE OECHSLER Enquirer Contributor East-West vulnerable. North deals. North A 5 K62 AK 10 87 4 4 A West East 4 84 4 10 9 A9 87 5 3 QJ965 32 Void 4J7 4KQ643 2 South 4Q7632 QJ104 Void 4 109 8 5 The bidding: North East South West 14 Pass 14 Pass 2 Pass 4V Pass 64 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: Four of 4 In "My Little Town," Paul Simon sings about feeling like a finger twitching on the trigger of a gun. A common failing of bridge players is having itchy fingers to cash their winners when there is no real hurry to do so. That can be costly on occasion.

The auction on this deal was not quite so demented as it appears. If North's diamonds were exchanged with either of his major suit hold Choral Society observes Lent James G. Weaver. Works on the program include Maurice Durufle's Requiem, Krzsyztof Penderecki's Agnus Dei, Jean Langlais' Mors et Resurrexio, Johannes Brahms' Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren, Jehan Alain's Litanies and Randall Thompson's Alleluia, For more information, call 281-3710. The Cincinnati Choral Society will commemorate the season of Lent with a concert or works for chorus and organ at 3 p.m.

March 6 in Northminster Presbyterian Church, Finneytown. Music Director Richard Hynson will conduct the concert, which features organist Robert Mollard, and vocal soloists Jan Rogers and Puzzles Boggle men score J-4 letters: 1 point letters 2 points letters: 1 points 7 letters points or more: 11 points TM Challenge Orchestra plans free concert IAI Beginning your career, looking for a change, or a fresh approach to nursing? You're invited to a St. Francis-St. George Hospital Nursing Open House Wednesday, March 2, 1988, 7 to 9 p.m. or Sunday, March 6, 1988, 2 to 5 p.m.

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a The Cincinnati Community Orchestra will present a free concert of music by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Elgar at 7:30 p.m. March 6. Music director Gerald Doan will conduct the concert at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, 317 E. Fifth St. Cellist Dan Culnan, a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will perform Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococco Theme with the community orchestra.

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