Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deseret News got out of the Sunday field. The Tribune, which in 1930 had bought the News's afternoon rival, the Telegram, now sold it to the News (which became the Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram). Then the once-bitter rivals joined hands by forming the Newspaper Agency Corp., through which both papers share the same printing plant and the same advertising, circulation and distribution organizations. They remain rivals-and staunch rivals-only editorially. President of the combined operation: John Francis Fitzpatrick...
...believe to be the position of his church. He voted against the use of public funds for parochial schools and against sending an ambassador from the U.S. to the Vatican." Some papers seemed to think that the whole religion issue was a Republican plot. Said the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Regardless of how it has been raised, religion has definitely become a major issue . . . Some foes of Mr. Kennedy's candidacy are masquerading behind it, though they evidence no religious convictions of their...
...corner office high above Manhattan's Park Avenue, Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard riffled through a stack of well-wishing telegrams: at 77 he had just announced that he was retiring after 33 years as editor of the New York World-Telegram and Sun, divesting himself of all executive responsibility and authority. Said Roy Howard, who for several years had been removing himself from management of the Scripps-Howard chain, as he looked back on more than 60 years in journalism: "Newspapers, I like to think, are the common denominator of popular thinking. In the old days...
...characteristic. From the sidelines he cried encouragement: "Keep going! Keep going! It's almost over!" Lifted by Johnson's cheers. Yang finished with the fine score of 8,426 points to pass Kuznetsov-but still short of Johnson's record. That night Johnson sent a telegram home: "I did it with God's help-a new world record...
...also a man, his human appetites are apt to get in the way of his vocation. Graham Greene used this simple fact of religious life with searing effect in The Power and the Glory. In his second novel, Author William Michelfelder, onetime reporter on the New York World-Telegram and Sun, cannot stand comparison with his master, but he tries to outdo him in compassion. Greene's whisky-drinking, fornicating priest in revolution-torn Mexico could only try to make amends by persisting in God's work at the risk of his life. Father Bowles, the sinner...