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Only at the end of his speech did Ike mention Bob Taft by name. With obvious sadness the President gave his audience the news of Taft's illness (see below), and announced that he had just sent the Senator a telegram, "saying that we well knew that we could not spare such patriotic and devoted service...
After the war Kennedy went to work for his home-town paper, the Worcester, Mass. Telegram and Evening Gazette, and then joined the New York Herald Tribune as a sports writer. Says he: "My beat was so wide that I soon' became known as the decathlon man." Among his many titles: ski editor. That title and the experience came in handy when TIME'S editors picked the cover subject for the issue of Jan. 21, 1952. The subject: Andrea Mead Lawrence, a swivel-hipped girl of grace and speed, captain of the U.S. women's Olympic...
When Atwood attended Clark University in Worcester, Mass., his father wanted him to become a lawyer, and the geologist uncle, then president of the university, urged him to be a geographer. But Atwood decided on a newspaper career, went to work first for the Worcester Telegram and Evening Gazette and later for the Illinois State Journal in Springfield...
Because of "all the things he did to me," Egyptian Cooch Dancer Samia ("The Virgin of the Nile") Gamal, a onetime favorite of ex-King Farouk, chucked her husband of 18 months, Houston Real-Estate Heir Sheppard ("Abdullah") King III, and flew back to Cairo. Abdullah, flourishing a telegram ("I shall be praying for you") from Evangelist Billy Graham, followed. After truce talks in her lawyer's office, Abdullah emerged to announce their reconciliation. He had made "concessions," because "show business is in Samia's blood." From now on, he said, it would be all right...
...company did not better until 1950's 2,364,508. Ford went everywhere, met everyone, and had opinions on everything. He became such a national hero that millions urged him to run for President. When he refused in 1923, Cal Coolidge, who wanted the job, sent him a telegram of thanks...