Word: telegrapher
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...story except the recipe, apparently because he thought the discussion of Russian eating habits was intended to make them look barbaric. Newsmen never set eyes on the censors or knew who they were. They simply took three copies of every story to entrance No. 10 at the Moscow Central Telegraph Office. If the story cleared quickly, newsmen got it back in as little as 20 minutes, censored and stamped. Any but the most routine stories took hours or days; many a story just disappeared...
British civilization, the British like to think, is anchored in such sterling virtues as playing the game, bearing the white man's burden, and being kind to animals. To prevent shortsighted swallows from colliding with overhead wires, for exampie, bird lovers festoon the telegraph lines with wooden bobbins, visible a mile away. Last week the lowly barnyard hen was the object of tender British solicitude...
...Tommy gun. The car rumbled westward for several miles before West German police caught up with it. Vaclav "unbuttoned" the armor and out tumbled eight happy Czechs. "I want to get to my husband and the U.S. the fastest way," said a very poised Mrs. Cloud. "Will you please telegraph...
...playful chimpanzee who appeared on a U.S. TV show alongside coronation pictures of the Queen (TIME, July 13), is still used to prove the inevitable tastelessness of commercial TV. In London's weekly Time and Tide, Malcolm Muggeridge, editor of Punch and onetime U.S. correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, has written a memorable answer to the enemies of commercial broadcasting. His arguments have meaning not only for Britons, but for Americans who often groan over commercials. Excerpts...
After Princeton, Stockly took on odd jobs, including a stint in a steel-mill, while pestering Pittsburgh newspapers to hire him. Finally, the Sun-Telegraph agreed to give him a job if he would work a trial month without salary. Stockly agreed, and after a month he was on the payroll at $30 a week. Eleven months later, he was off the payroll with the editor's prediction that he would never become a writer...