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...revenge, which ultimately amounts to no more than announcing to Martha, once she re-descends to the living room, that a son they never had, their mythical child, has been killed in an auto accident. When Martha demands proof of the absurd claim, George tells her he ate the telegram that bore the news and Honey corroborates his story. Martha is broken by the realization. And the guests leave...
...Disputed Telegram: "The telegram from President Ford [pressuring Israel to make further Sinai concessions] arrived just before Kissinger sat down with the Israeli negotiating team, and it turned the meeting into an icy confrontation. [Israeli Premier Yitzhak] Rabin told Kissinger that Israel would not accept dictation. He accused Kissinger of bringing in the President to pressure Israel. Kissinger claimed he had nothing to do with tbe presidential message. He said the Israelis seemed to think the President was a puppet whose strings were held by Kissinger. He said in disgust that if it were up to him, he would have...
Died. H. Allen Smith, 68, pungent humorist-author of 36 books, many of them bestsellers; of undetermined causes; in San Francisco. A onetime altar boy and chicken picker, Smith quit school after the eighth grade and began newspapering. In 1941 he was feature writing for the New York World Telegram when he published bestselling Low Man on a Totem Pole, enabling him to quit his job and concentrate on humor. Always the newsman, Smith saw himself as a reporter who was funny only because "the world is funny...
...Lampoon's first acts of independence was to apply to the United Nations for membership as a sovereign state, with a telegram to U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim...
...telegram was signed, "Stephen Fenichell, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, People's Emerging Republic of Lampoon...