Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Melbourne Herald headlined its story MENZIES PORTRAIT-A STORM. The Sydney Sunday Telegraph reprinted the entire cover story, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph editorialized: "That American TIME magazine has chosen Mr. Menzies for its cover portrait is a tribute to a great Australian statesman and a boost for Australia...
...that has haunted the wedding was not to be downed. Despite the palace's best efforts, the image of Margaret that dominated Britain's front pages last week was a preview of a gaunt-cheeked bronze by the late Sir Jacob Epstein. "Hardly regal," grumbled the Daily Telegraph of the scrawny figure. "The princess resembles a badly groomed suburban young woman, her hands roughened at the kitchen sink, about to pick up a tray," wrote the Daily Mail. Then Madame Tussaud's put on view a waxworks figure of Tony Armstrong-Jones in a hands-behind...
...only dissonant notes in the performance were the wildly off-key plugs delivered for the Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association, which sponsored the show. Even nimble TV veterans found it difficult to switch from a mourning Donna Anna ("The shade of my father/For vengeance it cries!") to a bedridden salesman receiving a bouquet of flowrers with a happy cry: "Why, it's from the boys in the branch office...
...crime to escape across state lines (or from the U.S.) to avoid prosecution or testifying in cases of burning or bombing of any building or vehicle. Also a federal crime: transporting explosives across state lines for the purpose of damaging property, or making bombing threats by mail, telephone or telegraph...
...biggest U.S. private enterprise this week set an upbeat pace for industry with the first-quarter earnings report in its current fiscal year. For the three months ending Feb. 29, the Bell System's share of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. earnings rose to a record $292,223,000, or $1.32 per share v. $1.21 per share in the same period last year. In his quarterly letter to A. T. & T.'s 1,700,000 stockholders, company President Frederick R. Kappel said that new telephone installations for the first quarter would probably exceed 750,000, slightly more than...