Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phone again. "Ridiculous," he snorted. They were "only kidding." Not so Linda. "Glenn proposed," she insisted. "He was so nervous he had three helpings of Wiener schnitzel. I think he should go to a rest camp." Instead, he went out with Rita Hayworth, and Linda's six-word telegram flew at his fickle heels: "Drop dead-and I'm not kidding...
...publishing." He might have a point. Though the Post's pre-strike circulation was only 327,629, it was expected to run off at least 500,000 papers a day in an effort to pick up readers from the idle Journal-American (circ. 601,625) and World-Telegram (442,936). Powers insisted that Mrs. Schiff would have settled "a long time ago" but for fear of "retribution from advertisers." What suddenly made Dolly change her mind...
Morison, who retired in 1955 after 40 years of Harvard teaching, said that the honor came as a complete surprise. "A newspaper reporter told me yesterday, and I got the telegram today, but that's all I know," he said. "I don't even know exactly what...
...Post's economic troubles are over, at least for the duration of the strike. The paper's two afternoon rivals, the World-Telegram and Sun and the Journal-American were closed down by the walkout, along with the morning Times and Daily News...
Before the strike the Post had a circulation of 335,859, third among New York afternoon papers behind the World-Telegram and the Journal-American...