Word: telegrapher
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After all the waiting, the names proved somewhat anticlimactic. "Respectable," said the London Times, rather unchivalrously, "but hardly exciting." Added the Daily Telegraph: "The list makes history -without unduly disturbing it." Absent were the expected names of sharp-tongued, Virginia-born Lady Astor, the first lady to sit in Britain's Parliament, and Lady Violet Bonham Carter, busy daughter of the late Prime Minister Sir Herbert Henry Asquith. Also missing: the Viscountess Rhondda, who died last week...
...would notify Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Britain's Macmillan of the decision by telephone. Dulles agreed to have U.S. embassies pass the word to other NATO and Western powers (with some concern that the sievelike leaks among France's civil servants might somehow telegraph the U.S. punch too early). Ike turned to his legislative aide, Major General Wilton "Jerry" Persons, and said: "Jerry, how soon do you think you can get the legislative leaders here...
...been ordered to lead his men into Jordan to bolster King Hussein against a coup, led them instead into sleeping Baghdad. Silently, and without firing a shot, his soldiers took over the key points of the city. One by one the railroad station, the main intersections, the post and telegraph offices and the radio station were surrounded. By the time the troops began heading for the palace of 23-year-old King Feisal, an excited mob was at their heels...
...recession has slowed but by no means stopped expansion of the world's biggest utility. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. President Frederick R. Kappel reported last week that second-quarter earnings of the Bell System topped those in 1957. A first-quarter decline in the company's business has been reversed...
...essential to the American ego is the claim of having seen South Pacific, reported Drama Critic W.A. Darlington of the Daily Telegraph, that a flourishing black market deals in the show's old ticket stubs...