Word: telegrapher
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...London Conservative Daily Mail melodramatically reported: "I watched a sickening spectacle. I watched a leading Blantyre policeman do these things to Africans who never hit back: strike them across the stomachs with stout black canes, knee Africans who were pleading for symbolic arrest, strike women . . ." Added the London Daily Telegraph of the watching Europeans: "I heard one remark, 'Funny little monkeys, aren't they...
Under Cornell's charter, the eldest lineal descendant of the original Ezra must always sit on the school's 49-member board. Millionaire Ezra Cornell, a onetime carpenter who helped put together Western Union Telegraph, launched the land-grant college by giving it $500,000 and his 300-acre farm in Ithaca, N.Y. And so Cornell's Trustees Cornell have followed Ezra: his son Alonzo, who was also a Governor of New York (1880-1882); his grandson Charles Ezra, a lawyer; Great Grandson William Bouck, a mechanical engineer; Great-Great Grandson William Ezra, a drug company executive...
...Telegraph Poles & Tin. Partly because of its long postwar austerity, when most of its automobiles were made for foreign markets. Britain was one of the slowest of Western industrial nations to discover the mixed blessings of the age of the Common Motorist. Even yet. there is only one six-lane British superhighway-the London-to-Birmingham M1. And in traffic-congested London, a race between a sports car and a sedan chair staged last week by the magazine Lilliput ended in a win for the sedan chair...
...Scottish border, are almost indistinguishable from the outskirts of Southampton 400 miles away, and along the highways between the two cities, William Blake's "green & pleasant land" of 150 years ago has been transformed into latter-day Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telegraph poles and tin." All told, more than 40% of the British population lives in seven monstrous conurbations surrounding London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow...
...Hugh Carleton Greene, 49, brother of Novelist-Playwright Graham Greene, took over as director general of the British Broadcasting Corp., replacing 60-year-old Sir Ian Jacob. Going from Oxford to Fleet Street in 1933, Carleton Greene was a Daily Telegraph correspondent until 1940, when he joined BBC to wage psychological warfare. BBC staffers are confident that their new 6½ ft. "D.G." is the man to hold up the BBC side in 1964, when the BBC's charter and the mandate of the ITV commercial network both expire...