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Many members of the hockey team considered the newspaper report as a death knell to their hopes to play in the tournament. Some said that they were particularly upset after remembering a telegram sent to the team before the Beanpot finals last Monday by Dean Watson...
...Watson's Telegram...
During their temporary alliance, Kanza said, the Congolese President and Premier sent a joint telegram to Nikita S. Khrushchev stating that the Congo might soon have to request Soviet aid in driving out Belgian troops. After September 5 of last year, when Lumumba and his friends (excepting Kanza himself) were thrown out of office, Kasavubu published the telegram but left his name...
...cartoonists expressed doubts and disagreements. Said the Tulsa World: "President Kennedy has outlined to Congress a program so wondrous in its hopes, so broad in its ambition, that it seems almost sinful to wonder if it may be too far out of this world." Said the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram: "Although his picture tends to be overly grim, Kennedy has made a thorough and quite scholarly diagnosis of the ills of the nation and the world. When it comes to remedies, he is less persuasive. The specifics of his program remain to be tested in the congressional fires." Grumbled the Chicago...
...rats at San Simeon were trapped in cages and transported several miles to be released. "The Chief" was less tender toward his editors. The best story of the fear he inspired in them is probably apocryphal. One frequently terrified editor, "Bugs" Tuttle, begged an assistant to open a telegram one day. "Your mother is dead," read the message. "Thank God!" Bugs Tuttle reportedly said. "I thought it was a wire from Mr. Hearst...