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...Washington and Colonel Leonard will be a long time forgiving Hopalong. "Everything was all set," says Leonard. "We had a telegram saying when Cassidy would arrive. Then comes this message from Detroit that we would have to pay $2,600 to fly his horse here. I told them we've got a hundred horses around Washington...
...when Hopalong insisted on his own horse, Colonel Leonard says he agreed to raise the money for Topper's airlift. Then the blow fell. "The next thing I knew there was a telegram from Cassidy saying he couldn't make it because of 'conflicting engagements.'." Unanimously backed by some 50 civic groups sponsoring the event (including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who are stuck with a medal struck for Hopalong), Colonel Leonard turned the matter over to an attorney. He gave an even more ominous indication of the public temper: "You know what my kids...
Willard Mullin, sports cartoonist for the New York World-Telegram and Sun, has illustrated the book. "Out of the Red" combines the talents of two men who are tops in their fields...
...also want to be the U.S. "chosen instrument" for worldwide cable communications. They argue that Western Union should get rid of its cable business, which was a condition to the Postal Telegraph merger. Western Union contends that it needs the overseas revenue, plus a clear field in the U.S. telegram business, before it can be sure of a profitable living in competition with its remaining rivals, the airmail letter and the telephone...
Seeds of Chaos. As the days passed, the city wondered what to think. To the Communist Daily Worker, the strike was a "heroic" demonstration. To the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram & the Sun, the students were sowing the seeds of "chaos." Superintendent of Schools William Jansen said that the strikers could not be "condemned too severely." The New York Post claimed that the officials were taking it all too seriously. Mayor O'Dwyer was plainly exasperated. He threatened to cancel the $7,000,000 appropriation, demanded that the Board of Education start a complete investigation...