Word: telegraphe
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...reveler shouting a last farewell as the royal yacht left the wharf: "See you later, alligator." Amid the hushed silence from officialdom, Philip's final message to the loyal citizens of New Zealand came clearly across the still water: "In a while, crocodile." Wrote the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "The Duke has given a new conception of monarchy to Australia by his easy camaraderie and complete informality. He has made it a more tangible, more personal and more folksy institution than it has ever appeared to us before...
...totals at a record $200 billion, up $8.5 billion from 1956'$ peak. Construction volume in September rose to $4.6 billion, up 4% over a year earlier. And the first earnings reports for 1957's third quarter showed that companies were still making record profits. American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines both posted new highs. IBM with a nine-month net before taxes of $130 million, some $25 million more than in 1956. Taking note of stock-market jitters, the staff of the congressional Joint Economic Committee advised businessmen not to be unduly concerned over recent stock price...
...back-country Ashanti tribesmen, Nkrumah tried to deport two of their leaders even though they were Ghana citizens. Challenged in court for such behavior, he rushed a special law through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) to expel the two. When Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen's counsel and brother of Laborite ex-Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, flew in to defend Reporter Colvin, the Interior Minister declared him persona non grata...
...team even to tie Oklahoma (42 games ago in 1953), the Panthers were said to have the stuff that makes for upsets. But even before the kickoff in Pitt Stadium, Pitt knew better. Sportswriters watched Oklahoma at practice, raced to their typewriters and passed the word. Wrote the Sun-Telegraph's George Kiseda: "The Sooners ran through everything as though they were qualifying for the Olympic 100-meter-dash final. On straight-T pitchouts, their quarterbacks did not just flip the ball to loping halfbacks as ordinary mortals do. Rather, they fired high-speed guided missiles at halfbacks...
...with the weepy singsong of Gabriel Heatter, still broadcasting after 32 years, the now-stilled, intelligent frog croak of Elmer Davis, the cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance. The news comes by short wave and on tape, the newsmen in snazzy ties and boutonnieres (ABC's popular John Cameron Swayze), and even in pairs (NBC's intelligent and informative...