Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blonde Mrs. Dorothy Lawlor, who had advertised her willingness to marry any man for $10,000 (TIME, June 7), made her choice. It was Dan Wicker, 33, proprietor of Danny's Musical Bar in Daytona Beach, Fla. The clincher had been a telegram from Danny: "Is you is, or is you ain't gonna be my baby?" Sighed Dorothy: "How could I resist a guy with a sense of humor like that...
Later, when the stars came out over Palomar, the guests too got a peek-at Saturn, which looked like a bright silver dollar amidst its moons and rings. Apparently it took imagination to make much out of it: the New York World-Telegram headlined its story THE SHOW'S A FLOP, but New York Times Science Reporter William L. Laurence wrote that he had been "dazzled by a new radiance from the light of distant stars...
...suggest, I am not quite sure it would not be somewhat uncomfortable." * The real Oxford Movement took place in the mid-19th century under the leadership of John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, John Keble and Edward Pusey. * Said Dr. Buchman, in a New York World-Telegram interview: I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler who built a front line of defense against the Anti-Christ of Communism . . . Think what it would mean to the world if Hitler surrendered to God . . . Through such a man God could control a nation overnight and solve every last bewildering problem...
After the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, our Eastern European correspondent, Robert Low, got an urgent telegram from a United Press reporter who had sublet his apartment in Prague. It said that the landlady had canceled the lease and was threatening to repossess his furniture...
...does any other long established organization, the HDC has its share of anecdotes. In the mid-thirties, the Club wanted to do George Bernard Shaw's "In Good King Charles' Day", and they wired the venerable GBS for permission, only to receive a telegram stating: "My dear young things--you may do it but you cannot." They didn...