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...Sidewalks. Born Dec. 9, 1906 on down-at-the-heels Second Street in Irish South Boston, Fox was the son of an employee in the supply department of the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. who worked himself up toward a middle-class living-and made John take piano lessons. John Fox, by his own admission less interested in knowledge per se than in prestige per se, majored in English literature at Harvard, paid his way through as a ragtime pianist at the Copley Plaza (now the oft-mentioned Sheraton Plaza) and Brae Burn Country Club, graduated in 1929 and landed...
...reporter for the World. There he soon became one of the best reporters in a Manhattan galaxy of byliners that included Irvin Cobb. Frank Ward O'Malley and Richard Harding Davis. Herbert Swope's unique asset: overwhelming personal charm. Said an envious New York Telegraph reporter: "He finds out who is the principal source of information, and proceeds to fascinate that person. He will not let the victim go until he has coughed up all he knows...
...Sinhalese letters. In response, Sinhalese mobs erupted in the streets of Colombo, obliterating all Tamil lettering on store fronts and signboards. Premier Bandaranaike abjectly reversed himself again and came out once more for Sinhalese as the national language. Disorders swept the country; railway tracks were torn up, telephone and telegraph wires cut. Cities and towns became the scene of communal war. In Colombo 10,000 terrified Tamils were herded into protective camps. In the Tamil country, beleaguered Sinhalese were similarly gathered together and protected by the police and army...
Pennywhistle lyrics have also become the urban African's version of the bush telegraph, warning against fickle women, street fights and raids by the "head-bashers" (white cops). Some titles convey political messages. One called Azi Khwelwa ("We don't ride" in Zulu) was banned by South African officials after they learned that natives took it as an incitement to boycott Jim Crow buses...
...sometimes easier to get a message from the moon than from Laos. Tucked in the jungle fastnesses of Southeast Asia, Laos has no telephone communication with the outside world; telegraph messages tend to run as late as 48 hours; the U.S. aid mission in the capital city of Vientiane (pop. 25,000) has a radiotelephone link with the U.S. aid mission in Bangkok, Thailand, but during the monsoon season, as now, messages are static-ridden and fragmentary...