Word: telegraphe
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Stovel is a good example of our Canadian correspondents and how they work: as telegraph editor of the Leader-Post he handles hundreds of stories each day, also looks for TIME news leads in a score of Saskatchewan papers. But Stovel knows his special job for TIME is to supply us with stories we could not get in any other way, so most afternoons find him digging out the news on the spot as he talks with farmers and workers and businessmen all over his vast territory...
Tall, dark-haired Colonel Douglas will replace white-haired Rear Admiral Ellery Wheeler Stone, also a former businessman (Postal Telegraph), as U.S. member of the Commission. No reflection on Admiral Stone, the change is part of the transition from military to civil supervision of Italy, which has its own national government but is still treated as a defeated and partly occupied enemy country. Douglas will drop his Army title, serve as a civilian commissioner...
Deep in its other troubles, Japan suddenly took time out for a spy scare. In an urgent broadcast, Radio Tokyo warned: "Enemy spy activities are becoming more & more intense . . . [their] great field is communications, such as mail, the telegraph and telephone...
...Paris plant of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which escaped with little destruction because of hasty German retreat, was able to do an immediate rush job for the U.S. Army, after the liberation of Paris: it delivered a complete radio station to SHAEF within 24 hours...
Astronomers whose countries are at war with each other have kept in touch through neutrals-and through Professor Shapley, who has collected and distributed astronomical news in a mimeographed Monthly Astronomical Newsletter, edited by crack Harvard Astronomer Bart J. Bok. Shapley also has a well-organized worldwide system for telegraph reporting of spot news; Germans cable their discoveries to Harvard via Denmark and Sweden...