Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This benign state of affairs was just too good to last. The New York World-Telegram printed embarrassing stories. Then New York's Republican state government, which contributes a lion's share of the relief funds dispensed by the city Democratic regime, began investigating. Last week, at a public hearing, State Department of Social Welfare Supervisor Bernard Shapiro lifted the racket...
...sign reading HIRE JOE LIEBLING, but the city editor always went in & out the back way, and never saw it. Eventually Liebling landed a job on the World anyway, just before the paper folded. In the next four years he wrote more than 750 feature stories for the World-Telegram and New York Journal, made a mad miscellany of friends: curators of tropical fish, kept women, bail bondsmen, wrestlers' pressagents, horse dockers, female psychiatrists. The last thing he was told about the newspaper business before he left it was a Hearst executive's dictum: "The public is interested...
That's a hell of an attitude, he continued, while paying for the telegram, which pleaded vast quantities of work as an excuse for the cancellation of his weekend date. On the other hand, he answered, if he did not feel like going to a football game, there was no need for him to go. Period. Neither Bill Bingham nor Dick Harlow nor the team would know the difference. Exclamation point, issue closed...
...have to build as much." And he does not like snow. "Snow runs into big money," says he. "You won't find snow in my pictures unless there's a good reason for it." Schary believes that any good plot can be told in a telegram, likes unusual ones. Says he: "I am not interested in the blue serge of the picture business [tried, true, and worn thin]. The material is the star...
...telegram to E.C. Krieger, national secretary of the Football Rules Committee, Bingham said that "this year officials have been careless in calling clipping" and therefore "violations are occurring too frequently...