Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown, longtime opponent of capital punishment, agonized over the Chessman case as Feb. 19 drew near. Ten hours before Chessman was to die-he had already been taken to a special deathwatch cell 15 paces from the door of the gas chamber -Brown received a State Department telegram advising him that the government of Uruguay was gravely concerned about the possibility of demonstrations protesting Chessman's execution when President Eisenhower visited Uruguay in early March. Brown promptly decided to grant a 60-day reprieve (TIME...
...what they seemed to a dabbling of dons. On the inspiration of Hugh Trevor-Roper, disputatious Regius Professor of modern history (The Last Days of Hitler), the dons found themselves with a candidate of their own-an old Balliol man who was then traveling in Africa. Off went a telegram to ask the traveler if he would accept. After an appropriate delay, and a sounding out of chances, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 66, said that he would...
...graduate students for a final examination on mental hygiene. Of those who took that exam last January, one was a ghost: a "Mike Benson" had been hired for $40 to substitute for a student uncertain of his own ability to pass. "Mike Benson" was, in fact, New York World-Telegram & Sun Reporter Alex...
...Indolent. Newsman Benson had come by his noteworthy story, published in seven World-Telegram installments, with remarkable ease. Last December he got an advice-seeking telephone call from a friend who, after answering a want ad in the New York Times, had had an offer of $18 to ghostwrite a term paper for a Manhattan college student. Benson decided to follow up. Posing as a well-educated chap named Mike Benson, he got in touch with the agency that had hired his friend, also sent letters to nine other agencies advertising in the Sunday Times. Benson's first overture...
...post. While he was on duty in the Pacific, she lived in a boardinghouse in San Francisco, worked as an OPA economist. At war's end, Lieut. Commander Nixon and his lady were stationed in Baltimore. Pat was pregnant, and the future was uncertain. Then a now-famous telegram came from Whittier: a "Committee of One Hundred" active Republicans wanted to know if Dick would be interested in running for the congressional seat solidly held by Democrat Jerry Voorhis. After discussing the proposition at length, says Pat, "I could see that it was the life he wanted...