Word: telegrapher
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...also fresh evidence that Richard E. Berlin, 67, cost-conscious president of the parent Hearst Corp., intends to strip the Hearst chain of all its weak links. Since 1951, when Chain Forger William Randolph Hearst died, Berlin has sold three Hearstpapers (Chicago's American, the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, the Detroit Times) and merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's News, retaining only a financial interest in the hyphenated News-Call Bulletin. At least three other Hearstpapers have been offered for sale: the Los Angeles morning Examiner and evening Herald-Express, and the New York Mirror...
British sportswriters fumed in disbelieving rage. "The show put on by our team." wrote one in the London Daily Mirror, "was lamentable, inexplicable, and utterly unexpected." Said the Daily Telegraph: "Had their [the Americans'] exploits been recorded in a school adventure story, it would have been held to be improbable." Demanding to know how the highly favored British women's tennis team could have suffered such a humiliating defeat (6-1 ) at the hands of the U.S. girls, the Daily Sketch called for an official investigation. Indeed, about the only Britons who gracefully accepted the loss...
...style comments. At last year's annual trad jazz festival at Beaulieu. Bilk was in such demand that fans shouting his name booed a modern combo off the stage, threw beer bottles and overturned TV cameras in a riot that approximated the American shambles at Newport. The Daily Telegraph calls Bilk ''almost a folk hero...
...Stepping into his 26th-floor office in the American Telephone & Telegraph Building on Manhattan's lower Broadway, Eugene Johnson McNeely, 60, was greeted by a fresh sign on the door, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. For the third time in his 39-year telephone career, McNeely succeeds to a job previously held by Frederick R. Kappel, 59, who moves up to the company's long-unoccupied chairmanship and remains chief executive. McNeely, who joined the Bell System straight out of the University of Missouri Engineering School ('22), will supervise engineering operations, marketing and personnel. An energetic perfectionist...
...real move was made to protect the Indian until 1910, when the government asked Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon. an army communications officer, to make peace with the tribes along a projected telegraph route through the jungle. Moved and angered by the Indians' tragic lot, Rondon established the Indian Protection Service, inspired his men to live up to the service's creed: "Die If You Must. But Never Kill." One of them, a Brazilian of German extraction named Harold Shult?, heroically applied this principle after a brave of the Xavante tribe, furious because Shultz had no gift...