Word: telegraphe
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...bush telegraph crackled that Banda was back, and within half an hour of his arrival at a friend's house in nearby Limbe, cheering blacks appeared outside as if by magic to cheer their messiah...
When a person talks on the telephone, he is silent more than half the time, either listening to the other party, collecting his thoughts, or perhaps just catching his breath. The Long Lines Department of the American Telephone &. Telegraph Co. last week told how it craftily takes advantage of such conversational pauses to double the carrying capacity of its U.S.Britain cable...
Allen does much of his business with about a dozen electronics companies, including Ampex, International Telephone & Telegraph, and Lockheed's missiles di vision. Firms often give him small but difficult projects for which they can spare neither time nor men. The company is developing a specialized product line of its own, including transformers and various electrical filters, has raised its work force to 15 (now all adults) in a new plant. Since Allen has had to finance his business out of profits, he has been care ful to see that whatever he made was certain to sell, draws only...
...press confab last year Harry Truman wished aloud: "The thing I'd like to do if I ran a newspaper would be the telegraph editor and the blue-pencil man. And then I'd sure get what I wanted in the paper!" In Miami last week Harry got his wish, muffed his opportunity. Invited by the Miami Herald's Republican Publisher John S. Knight to try out a blue pencil, Truman accepted, but first he visited the Democratic-angled afternoon News, where he sat at the telegraph editor's desk and did little but doodle...
...teens he fed material to Walter Winchell, also showed so much talent as a cartoonist that the Morning Telegraph hired him to illustrate its "Beau Broadway" column. At 22, he began reviewing plays for the Hollywood Reporter, seldom wasted words. Samples: Strange Fruit-"a lemon"; Billion Dollar Baby-"inflation." When one Broadway producer complained that Hoffman was physically unqualified for his job because he "can't see," Hoffman squinted agreeably and said, "Yes, but there's nothing wrong with my nose...