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...week's end the Kentucky Republican State Central Committee got the news that it was hoping to hear. From John Sherman Cooper came a telegram saying that he would give up his job as Ambassador to India after all, and would run for the unexpired (four years) U.S. Senate term of the late Alben Barkley...
WESTERN UNION RATES on domestic telegrams will go up July 29 unless FCC blocks boost. To meet increased costs, Western Union plans to hike rates 5? to 15? for each telegram going farther than 125 miles, thus collect an additional $11.4 million yearly...
Carefully furthering his foaming reputation as the wild man of U.S. letters, Chicago's seamy-side Novelist Nelson (A Walk on the Wild Side) Algren avidly snapped at some old-bone subjects dangled before him in Manhattan by a World-Telegram and Sunman. Of his erstwhile great and good friend, French Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who unwarily dedicated her latest existentialist idyl, The Mandarins, to Algren: "A good female novelist ought to have enough to write about without digging up her own private garden. For me, it was just a routine relationship, and she's blown...
...years later Eero proudly walked off with first prize in a Swedish newspaper matchstick-design contest, collected 30 Swedish kronor ($8). The same week, his father received a telegram from Chicago announcing that he was runner-up in the international Chicago Tribune Tower contest, with a design that Skyscraper Architect Louis Sullivan hailed as "a voice, resonant and rich, ringing amidst the wealth and joy of life." Eliel Saarinen promptly dipped into the $20,000 prize to move his family to the U.S. When the family landed in Manhattan, Eero Saarinen was twelve...
...Louis Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in 1948. The elder Saarinen submitted a formal monumental design; Eero's entry was an audacious, 590-ft. stainless-steel arch that looked like a giant, glistening croquet wicket-which he had conceived while bending a wire and wool pipe cleaner. A telegram announced Eliel the winner. The family broke out the traditional champagne to celebrate...