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...entered World War I he was a radio ham, tapping out Morse code on his do-it-yourself set. The National Guard quickly shipped him off to Old Point Comfort, Va. to help start a military radio school. Later, he threaded his way upward through the postwar mergers of telegraph and telephone companies. By 1951, just before he joined TIME, he was an operations and personnel executive for Western Union...
Next day she held an hour-long interview with 250 pressmen jammed into the chandeliered River Room of London's Savoy Hotel. Reported Daily Telegraph Newshen Winifred Carr, dolefully: "I've had my eyes well and truly opened about men, after watching a roomful of the most critical, cynical and sophisticated males in town, hard-bitten journalists, act like adolescents. Even those who had come to sneer were hanging on her words like impressionable schoolboys and laughing at her wit before she had completed a sentence." Glowed the Daily Mirror: "Marilyn Monroe, the sleek, the pink...
...raise money for expansion, currently costing $7,750,000 each working day, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week announced the largest direct stock issue in history: 5,750,000 in new shares to raise $575 million. Stockholders of record on a September date to be set by the directors will get rights allowing the purchase of one new share at $100 for each ten shares then held. Rights, estimated to be worth about $8 (at the current market), may be sold if the stockholder does not want...
...Socialist press was in no doubt where it stood in the matter. Said London's Tory Daily Telegraph: "The uncommitted voter will quickly see that what the pamphlet means by equality is a process of leveling down, of keeping everyone as far as possible to the lowest common denominator, in all those things in which people naturally desire to be unequal-housing, education or property...
Future at Stake. In interviews with the London Daily Telegraph and CBS, Turkey's Prime Minister Adnan Menderes made his case. "You are aware," he said, "that Greece has worked up this whole tremendous agitation simply to be able to annex an island 40 miles from Turkey and 600 or 700 miles from her own mainland. In doing so the Greek government has not hesitated to imperil the future of NATO, of the Balkan Pact [Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia] and of its own good relations with Britain and Turkey...