Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, Harry Truman's resolve was strengthened by about 2,000 telegram-30 to 1 in favor of his tough tactics. He called off any further conferences with Brothers Whitney and Johnston, did not even deign to read a letter from them which still sought extra concessions...
...casualty: Critic Burton Rascoe, who didn't like the show, and who quit as World-Telegram drama critic when his paper refused to print his stinging first-night review...
...strange and wonderful part of the nickel's worth that readers of the New York World-Telegram get each day is a garrulous nature column on the editorial page called "News outside the Door." Its 75-year-old author, J. Otis Swift, who has been writing it 24 years, is convinced that he accounts for 100,000 of the Telly's 387,087 readers. Last week, at Manhattan's Cornish Arms Hotel, white-shocked, sprightly J. Otis Swift was guest of honor at the 23rd Annual Ball and Reunion of the Yosian Brotherhood of Nature Philosophers...
...Egyptian collection (second only to Cairo's), rearranged it in 15 galleries and a great hall to show, among other things, that the ancient Egyptians rolled their equivalent of dice, drank beer, plucked their eyebrows and went in for pedicures. The New York World-Telegram's Art Critic Emily Genauer tartly accused the Met of showing more interest in archaeology than...
After graduating from Yale in 1927, Svirsky worked for several Trade Union publications, and got a job with the New York World in 1929. When that paper was bought out by the Telegram in 1931, he became School Editor for the new owners and in 19374 went to Time to head their Education department...