Word: telegraphe
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...Plaque. Of his $25 million publishing empire (Annenberg's conservative estimate), which also includes Seventeen, Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph and Official Detective Stories, Annenberg says proudly: "Everything's in the black." He runs the empire from his cavernous, richly decorated Inquirer office, where he sits in front of a small bronze plaque engraved with the words: "Cause my works on earth to reflect honor on my father's memory." One memory of his father, the late Moses L. ("Moe") Annenberg, that lingers in U.S. history is a three-year prison term for evading...
Britain's sportswriters spent their superlatives: "The Hogan Open, the greatest open in modern times," said London's Daily Express. "Hail the greatest golfer of our time," said the Daily Herald. "And who shall say he's not the best of all time?" echoed the Daily Telegraph...
...bark of a hibiscus tree), had a hot bath and went to bed. Later she told newsmen that she loved the British weather. "The public was as wet as I, and we were both enjoying ourselves . . . Oh, it was marvelous. The greatest day ever." Wrote the London Daily Telegraph: "Few visitors can ever have endeared themselves so widely and so speedily." Pleaded Columnist Nat Gubbins in the Sunday Express...
Walter S. Gifford, former chairman of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's LL.D...
...course in how to run them. Soon he offered Port-au-Prince its first nettoyage à sec. After the predictable number of mangled sleeves and missing buttons, Jimmy's crew of five began to get the hang of dry-cleaning. The tele jiol (Creole for word-of-mouth telegraph) advertised his service, and bundles of clothes poured in on muleback and in baskets on peasant women's heads. Jimmy expanded his plant, opened a laundry (the Blanchisserie Jimmy). Today his business is worth...