Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burps. Simon also squarely faces a fact often obscured by sentimental hindsight: a great many bands of the era were inevitably cheap, slick or inept. He quotes Arranger Gordon Jenkins, after an evening of listening to the radio in 1937: "I heard 458 chromatic runs on accordions, 911 'telegraph ticker' brass figures, 78 sliding trombones, four sliding violas, 45 burps into a straw, 91 bands that played the same arrangement on every tune, and 11,006 imitations of Benny Goodman...
There were a mere few thousand holders of company stocks in 1917; now there are more than 22 million with a stake in business. Three million hold shares in American Telephone & Telegraph Co. alone, and one-third of General Electric's shareholder-owners got some of their stock through savings and bonus plans...
...Dunster show, despite occasional bright performances, manages to obscure much of the script's brilliance. Director Peter Schandorff allows his actors to telegraph each of the punchlines. This throws off the pace of the show so that, at times, the performance degenerates into a string of jokes--each followed by a blackout. His own smothering of the Lord Russell sequence is the best example of this...
...them failing to realize that the contemplated legislation will probably take a year to go into effect. London newspapers were edgy about the possibility that the crackdown might include a ban on all cigarette advertising. Editorially, some papers began to inveigh against abuse of government control. Said the Daily Telegraph: "Freedom must include the right to take calculated risks even to life itself...
Last week it did: an exchange of stock with a per-share value of $35 for each of 5,500,000 Sheraton shares outstanding. Making the $193 million bid was Harold S. Geneen (TIME cover, Sept. 8), chairman-president of the vast conglomerate International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Sheraton and its 129 U.S. hotels and motels, together with 25 overseas, should fit nicely into ITT's "consumer services" group, which already includes Avis, Airport Parking Co. and 16 Holiday Inn franchises. For the time being, at least, Geneen will let Henderson and Boonisar run his 45th acquisition...