Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many Fingers. But the road to office was not all smooth for Candidate Steel. To the New York World-Telegram, he was " 'an all-out defender of Stalin's politics' with a special bent for Soviet worship. . . ." The New Leader, an anti-Communist labor paper, described him as "a servile propagandist... a consistent fabricator ... of his personal life and history," recalled that he was once praised by the Soviet Izvestia as a "lonely voice" in America. The New Leader also pointed out that Steel had the classic commentator's background-in 1934 he had written: "Hitler...
...received a telegram and shipping bill saying that the statue was about to arrive. My letter, not given to the press, said that the statue was unacceptable, and if dumped on the City would be used as fill in a reclamation project. The whole thing was a cheap advertising stunt on the part of the radio program, and a feeble but expensive practical joke by this station on the veteran. Incidentally, as we expected, the statue was mutilated when it arrived, the head having been broken off the body. No doubt we might have said nothing and have embarrassed...
...radio's best friends and most constant listeners is a 16-year-old named Frank Lachmann, of Manhattan. To the New York World-Telegram Fan Lachmann wrote a curious, furious letter...
...lives in an old Gloucestershire manor house with his (second) wife, and four children whom he affects to detest. He is a connoisseur of wines and cigars, wears a bowler, takes the air swinging an old-fashioned cane. He cannot drive a car, shuns the telephone, barely accepts a telegram. Sighs his go-ahead friend Randolph Churchill: "He becomes more old-fashioned . . . every day. His favorite novelist is Trollope. . . . He seeks to live in an oasis...
...bright streak disrupting the usually placid constellation Corona. Friend knew that he had spotted a comet, one of the mavericks of the solar system. He also knew what to do about it. Quickly figuring the ascension, declination and magnitude of his find, he rushed the news by time-dated telegram to Harvard University Observatory, the astronomic clearing house for the western hemisphere. The observation was promptly confirmed...