Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lina Cavalieri, 69, beauteous, thrice-married soprano of Caruso's day; in an air raid on Florence, Italy. It was on the occasion of her profitable divorce from the late eccentric Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler that his late eccentric brother John Armstrong Chaloner sent him the famed telegram: "Who's loony...
Died. Will B. Johnstone, 62, political cartoonist, creator of the barrel-dressed, chinless, widely syndicated "Little Taxpayer"; after long illness; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Old World-man Johnstone was taken over by the World-Telegram in 1931, first sent his "taxpayer" into the lists as an auxiliary in Mayor LaGuardia's successful 1933 campaign against Tammany...
...including biographies of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Coolidge); after long illness; in his native Emporia, where for 49 years he had edited the Gazette, making it the most quoted of all country newspapers. To his widow and son, William L. White, who succeeds him (TIME, Jan. 31), came a telegram from a frequent Gazette editorial target, Franklin Roosevelt: "He ennobled the profession of journalism . . . a real sense of personal loss . . . we had been the best of friends." The U.S. had lost the last of its great personal editors, a friendly and forceful champion of freedom...
Apropos your amusing discussion of the World-Telegram's "Arpad" (TIME, Jan. 3) I should like to make a suggestion as to his probable origin, which seems to be in doubt...
...Sergei Kournakoff, onetime Imperial Russian captain who, the World-Telegram suggested, is the Communist Daily Worker's military expert...