Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack, 22, quarterback extraordinary, won the Heisman Memorial Trophy, by a landslide, as the year's No. 1 collegiate football player. The coach-of-the-year, in a New York World-Telegram poll of 272 college coaches, was Michigan's smart Fritz Crisler...
...another branch of AVC activity a telegram bearing 600 student signatures yesterday was count to Joseph Martin. Charles Ballock, and Edith Rogers of the House of Representatives urging passage of the Rogers student subsistence bill which would raise monthly veterans allotments...
British Labor party leaders let out an explosive breath last week. They had squeaked through a parliamentary by-election at Gravesend. Party Boss Herbert Morrison sent the victor a jubilant telegram: "We will open the door, Richard, when you come to the House...
...darling of the cameramen was tiaraed Mrs. Frank Henderson, identified by Knickerbocker as "The Milton Berle of Society." Betty Henderson "came in directly behind Mrs. Kavanaugh," giggled Society Columnist Charles Ventura in the World-Telegram, "and suffered a sound thwack over the tiara with a folded program by a dowager who resented having to wait in a drafty doorway until Betty was photographed. . . ." The press heard that she had paid only $48.25 for her gown at S. Klein's. She even put a 71-year-old leg up on a table in the Opera café, and repeated...
Rutgers Targum editor William Mackenzie and cheerleader Douglas Campbell took possession of the cannon Thursday afternoon at a Kirkland House rendezvous. They came in answer to a midweek telegram from the thief reading: HAD NOT REALIZED THE CANNON MEANT SO MUCH TO RUTGERS. THE DEED WAS DONE OUT OF A SPIRIT OF PRANKISHESS...