Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major civil rights bills-in 1964, '65 and '66. Weltner further outraged Southern racists last year by initiating a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. His resignation from the race prompted hundreds of tributes from across the U.S., including a telegram from a non-Georgian that read: "I never heard of you. Now I will never forget...
When Jackie Gleason suddenly up and announced his retirement from CBS television last winter, he got a wire of "appreciation" from an NBC vice president. The telegram was ill timed. In the first place, the Gleason show had become so lackluster in recent seasons that he already seemed semiretired. In the second place, Gleason turned right around and signed an $8,000,000 deal with CBS for one more season. It would be, he proclaimed, "something different" and "something better...
...state legislature, men who tend to hear their constituents loud and clear. As one high elective official in Southern California puts it: "If you say you're against CLEAN, you automatically become a 'dirty.' " According to a statewide poll taken for the Long Beach Independent-Press-Telegram, Proposition 16 is favored by 63.7% of Californians. Whether they fully understand the potential extent of the proposition, the poll cannot...
Conniff handled his callers with the good humor, occasional exasperation and unflagging optimism of a man delighted to be back on the job. The new paper, he conceded, would combine most of the features of the three papers it absorbed: the Herald Tribune, the World-Telegram, the Journal-American. "We're not going to emulate any one of them," said Conniff, as he planned for an eight-column layout with abundant white space on weekdays, a six-column page on Sundays. "This paper will look like itself...
Overabundant Columnists. By no accident, it will look like all three of its predecessors. It will be broken into four sections, and in makeup and type, Page 1 of the first section will be reminiscent of the Telegram. The first page of the second section will have a calculated familiarity for old Trib readers, as it gives prominence to Columnists Dick Schaap, Art Buchwald and Jimmy Breslin. Pages 2 and 3 of the second section will contain the editorials and a constantly changing panorama of other columnists-for all the world like the departed Journal-American...