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Mission Accomplished. In Richmond, sent to deliver a telegram to the medical college of Virginia Hospital, Western Union Messenger Paul Allen, 18, collapsed from heat exhaustion three blocks from his destination, was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, revived and delivered his telegram...
...Odor of Dead Fish. At wit's end by Feb. 3, 1927, Lindbergh dashes off a telegram to an almost unknown San Diego outfit called Ryan Airlines, gets an answer back the next day: "Can build plane . . . Delivery about three months." Lindbergh heads for the coast, finds Ryan Airlines in a dilapidated waterfront building with no flying field, no hangar, no sound of engines-only the pervasive odor of dead fish from a nearby cannery. But the competent chief engineer, Donald Hall, impresses Lindbergh. The order is placed. With five other transatlantic flights poised to go, a race against...
...like any other soldier, was afraid of death, which came suddenly, and always at the wrong time. A man in his company was blown up just after he got a telegram that told him he had a new son, his first. "The American soldier has only one fault," said a platoon leader. "He has too much to live for." Many men said: "I don't want to be a hero, I just want to be alive." Nevertheless, there were plenty of heroes before it was over. Not wanting to die, the G.I. newly on the line took a while...
Still Swinging. President Eisenhower also took the offensive against McCarthy, although not until after McCarthy had decided to fire Matthews. The President received a strong anti-Matthews telegram signed by the Rev. John A. O'Brien, Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath and Dr. John S. Bonnell of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.* In strong terms, Eisenhower expressed his agreement with this group. "Generalized and irresponsible attacks that sweepingly condemn the whole of any group of citizens," he wrote, "are alien to America . . . When [they] condemn such a vast portion of the churches or clergy as to create doubt...
...news of Beria's downfall reached the outside world in a dawn broadcast from Radio Moscow, followed by an official Tass announcement. Then the speculations began. PURGE DECIDES POWER BATTLE FOR MALENKOV, headlined the Detroit News; MOLOTOV RISES AS PURGE PERILS MALENKOV, headlined the New York World-Telegram, which later front-paged...