Word: telegrapher
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...treated kindly by both audiences and critics. The London Times had "little doubt that his large output includes feeble pieces as well as masterpieces" but decided that "for most of us he still speaks persuasively." The Eighth Symphony won a standing ovation ("Moments of true greatness," wrote the Daily Telegraph), and some listeners found the string quartets-particularly Nos. 5 and 7-to be as fine as any of the orchestral music. But with the Western Premiere of the massive, bombastic Twelfth Symphony, the response changed-as if a totally different composer had appeared on the scene. The Twelfth, said...
...Senate by fighting an Administration bill that would turn over communications satellites to a corporation owned half by the public and half by private companies. Led by Oregon's splenetic Wayne Morse, they charged that the measure was a "giveaway" by Government, principally to the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Ironically, the liberals used the same tactics for which they had long denounced Southern Senators fighting civil rights legislation...
...yachtsman, Packer is known at home as a ruthless, tight-fisted publisher who once laced out a reporter for spending 6/ of his boss's money on a tram ride to an assignment-Packer told him to walk. Employees on his five newspapers (among them: the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph), three magazines and two TV stations sometimes refer to him as "Gorgo" -after the mad monster of the movies...
...just about the most prosperous astrologer of all is not much interested in personal psychology. Zolar-a onetime clothing salesman named Bruce King who got into the horoscope game when a highly popular astrologer quit a radio program King was managing-receives and answers queries by mail, telephone, and telegraph, and never sees a client. Instead, he saturates the mass market with a riptide of astrological merchandising distributed through newsstands, drug and dime stores: Zolar's Book of Forbidden Knowledge, Zolar's Official Astrology Magazine, Zolar's Official Dream Book. Last week the great Zolar was upset...
Three years after his death at the age of 76, the will of Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey was probated in Manhattan surrogate court. The blunt, baseball-capped naval hero of World War II, who retired in 1947 to become an International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. executive and a successful dealer in surplus Navy oil tankers, left a bull-sized estate totaling...