Word: telegrams
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...Georg Solti is playing my Variations for Orchestra with the Chicago Symphony. He decides to invite me, all expenses paid, to attend the concert. When does the telegram arrive? On the day of the concert. He is in Chicago; I am in New York, with classes to teach. What...
...wish was to release myself from the incredible pressures being put on me, particularly in my business activities and various attempts at blackmail." Thus, in a strangely unrepentant, even jaunty mood, did Labor M.P. and International Financier John Stonehouse explain in a telegram to Prime Minister Harold Wilson a mysterious disappearance that for 33 days had Britain buzzing with rumor and speculation (see TIME, Dec. 30). Last seen on Nov. 20 setting off for a jog on the beach at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel and since then widely presumed to have drowned, Stonehouse had been variously alleged...
Died. Sterling North, 68, novelist and critic; after a series of strokes; in Whippany, N.J. North worked from 1932 to 1956 as literary editor of the Chicago Daily News, the New York Post and the New York World-Telegram & Sun, turning out a book a year as well...
...price increases on his brand-new Administration last August, President Ford issued a statement that he was "very disappointed" at the news and doubtful that the price hikes were justified. As it happened, the Wage and Price Council had already taken it upon itself to fire off a telegram to U.S. Steel's New York headquarters asking the company to explain the increases. Three days later, a covey of U.S. Steel executives led by Board Chairman Edgar B. Speer arrived in Washington. Although U.S. Steel had raised prices by 23% earlier this year, the officials insisted that...
...spent seven months as an unhappy president of a Manhattan brokerage firm in 1969 and insists that except for Nixon, Wall Street was "a far more ruthless world than anything I have known in politics. I saw men who had been with a company for decades fired by telegram, just like that, without warning or sympathy. You don't often see people treated that way in politics...