Word: telegrapher
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Three Years to Grow. Such welfare-state heresy started a sharp fisc fight. "The richer a man is the more he gets under this budget,'' cried Labor's Harold Wilson. "One of its principal virtues," answered the Tory Telegraph...
Perhaps the most telling critique came from George K. Moriarty, telegraph editor of the Hartford Times (circ. 116,012), who wrote: "The ground plan and execution of the news story today are as out of date as sonnet writing or the sleigh ride." By long usage, wire services and most newspapers cram the major facts into the first paragraph, then return to each point later for fuller treatment. The result is repetition that taxes both "the paper's newsprint supply [at $135 a ton] and the reader's patience"; it also impairs the readability of many stories that...
...program beamed at pep-talk luncheons for 10,000 dealers in 48 cities of 32 states. Hired for $7,500, Commentator Edward R. Murrow emceed the show, used his Person to Person format to interview top Harvester officers about products and plans. To promote its Yellow Pages, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. a fortnight ago hired Cinemactor Walter Pidgeon to emcee a 59-city closed-circuit TV show for potential classified advertisers and member phone companies...
RAPID GROWTH in number of stockholders in Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), helped by three-for-one stock split last year, puts company in third place among U.S. companies with high est number of common share owners. Jersey Standard's new roster: 403,000 share owners v. American Telephone & Telegraph's 1,490,000, General Motors...
...after his grandfather John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real zest for getting around, would bring a "new start in this respect." The Telegraph also retrospectively hailed "the new Ambassador's firm break with the more absurd social conventions of New York society." In Tokyo, meanwhile, Career Diplomat Douglas MacArthur...