Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public mind. Grant that in all the hectic pressures of their calling they may preserve its ideals of truth, integrity and fairness. We offer Thee our heartfelt thanks, O Lord, as we count the blessings of TIME'S 40 fruitful years." The cardinal then read a telegram from the Vatican: "Holy Father Pope John XXIII requests Your Eminence to convey his greetings to the assembly, expressing prayerful hope that the meeting may further the cause of peace and brotherhood of mankind." Himself Is Here. As toastmaster, Editor in Chief Luce introduced the guests with him on the dais. When...
Journalism: International Reporting Hal Hendrix, Fla., News, for stories revealing the Russian buildup in Cuba; Reporting under deadline pressure-Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon, and William Longgood, New York World Telegram & Sun, for reporting of March 1, 1962, American Airlines jet crash at Idlewild; Reporting without deadline pressure-Oscar Griffin, Jr., Pecos, Tex., independent, for publishing first articles on Billie Sol Estes...
...dailies and the broadcasters made Gargantuan efforts to fill the void," wrote the News's Ben Gross, "but both were pale shadows of the real thing." Said the Journal's acerbic Jack O'Brian: "They had it all to themselves . . . and they blew it." To the Telegram's Richard Starnes. all the substitutes were "practically worthless to a hungry...
With an alarmed eye on the Journal, whose prestrike circulation of 601,625 paced the afternoon field, the Telegram (442,936) piously proclaimed that it would offer "no gimmicks," then promptly announced an armful: a new contest, a new "space-age" comic strip, a dog column "that interprets barks with a bite." The Post, which had more than doubled its circulation to 750,000 by returning to print three weeks before the others, made little effort to match its rivals' fancy footwork and slipped quietly back to third in the three-paper P.M. race...
...their coming of age with quiet joy; Serb marked his 21st birthday by jumping off the Larz Anderson Bridge. (His body was recovered a week later by the Harvard Student Agencies Dredging Service, and condolences were sent to his grieving parents through the HSA Condolence Agency in a rhyming telegram: "We have bad news for you/Your son's short life is through/ To manhood he had grew/But himself in the river he threw...