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...Record. The full story, thanks to the whims of SHAEF censorship, was slow in coming out. On Sunday afternoon at an airport outside Paris, 16 newsmen had been assembled-on 15 minutes' notice-and told they were to cover an important out-of-town assignment. After their big C-47 was in the air, Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF press chief, shouted above the engines' roar to the 16: "Gentlemen, we are going ... to cover the signing of the peace. . . . This story is off the record until the respective . . . Governments announce [it]. I therefore pledge...
...comics to match Bertie's fine ones, and no A.P. franchise) he tells for the first time. Arguing his (and the Government's) antimonopoly case against the A.P., Field reveals that the United Press charged him a whopping $110,000 a year for its wires. Out-of-town news bureaus and special correspondents cost him another $425,000 annually. A.P. service would cost only about $50,000, if Bertie and the A.P. would only let the Sun in. In decrying the A.P.'s "news monopoly," Field, unfortunately for his argument, ends up by proving that...
...potato. He had all but committed the Municipal Stadium (capacity 60,000) to Gene Tunney of Arch Ward & Co. The Meehan interests, headed by big, bluff James Lacy (Lacy Iron & Foundry Works), bellowed that the bowl should go to his group of Baltimoreans, rather than to an out-of-town ex-heavyweight champ. Here, too, the Payne boys seemed to be whistling in the dark...
...switching system") has greatly speeded up long distance telephoning and relieved wartime overcrowding of toll lines. Telephone officials expect to install the system throughout the nation as soon as equipment is available after the war. Eventually, they believe, it will be possible for a customer to dial an out-of-town call on his home or office phone. Already, in Culver City, Calif., engineers are testing an instrument which not only permits direct dialing of toll calls (within a limited area) but automatically records on a printed ticket the length of the call and the charges...
...place to spend them. Bridge tables, ping pong tables a grand piano, dancing space, and a radio phonograph with a record library to draw from are provided in the large room. The small room contains a central reading table on which will be the latest local and out-of-town newspapers, current magazines, and stationery and writing materials...