Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale University got four chimpanzees for animal psychology research, encouraged them to breed. Now Yale has 40 apes. Last week Professor Milton C. Forster described a competition between young chimpanzees and two children lent by faculty members. Both apes and moppets were silently trained to release a telegraph key when stimulated in turn by a sight, a sound, a touch. The apes' reaction times were as fast as the children's. Even when the subjects were trained to a "choice response" (two keys, two stimuli) the animals held their own with the humans...
...Patriot, celebrating its 80th birthday, held a drawing for cash prizes, proposed to publicize the winners in a splash of goodwill advertising. Winner of the $1,000 capital prize: Mildred Rosebud Baturin. Ruefully the Patriot paid $1,000 to Mildred Rosebud Baturin, associate society editor of the rival Harrisburg Telegraph...
...Editorial discretion on the nudity of a private citizen took different forms. Some editors, perhaps mindful that Photographer Chapman was jeopardized by Pennsylvania's strict laws against contributing to the delinquency of a minor, tossed the prints aside. In Pittsburgh the Sun-Telegraph printed the swimming pose. So did the New York Daily News and the Omaha Bee-News. Hearst's New York American delicately restored Kaletta's bathing suit before publication. At least one newspaper dared to print Kaletta naked on the rock. It was the Knoxville Journal...
Married, Stephen Henry Horgan, 80, inventor of the halftone process of reproducing photographs; and Miss Delia Van Houten, 74; in Nyack, N. Y. Mr. Horgan made his first newspaper halftone, a picture of Manhattan, for the defunct Daily Graphic in 1880. In 1924 he was the first man to telegraph a color photograph, a three-color portrait of Rudolph Valentino...
...with the exception of Minister of Justice Pietro de Francisci was mobilized this week to serve with the troops. Minister of Communications Umberto Puppini will command infantry divisions. Minister of Colonies General Emilio de Bono will serve as a field judge. Minister of Education Francesco Ercole will head field telegraph and radio. Minister of Finance Guido Jung has a regiment of artillery. Hardest job goes to Under Secretary of Corporations Alberto Asquini who will be responsible for one of the still untried celeri divisions. Easiest goes to dapper, foppish Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, whose principal...