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Family Background: Born Feb. 16, 1904, in Milwaukee, of Scotch-Irish parents. His great-uncle, George Kennan, traveled by dog sled 5,000 miles through Czarist Russia on an abortive project to link Moscow and the U.S. by a Siberian-Alaskan telegraph line, wrote an anti-Czarist book, Siberia and the Exile System...
...long led the world in communications. But in its awesome postwar expansion, U.S. industry discovered that the old communications methods were not good enough. The telephone, telegraph and teletype lines that connect the scattered plants of big corporations were limited in use, expensive to install and maintain. As a solution, industry is turning to another medium: microwave transmission,* i.e., ultra-high-frequency radio...
...kingdom's rail transport consists of one steam engine, two diesels, a few ramshackle freight cars, and only 200 miles of track to run them on. Between Tripoli, which is the country's largest city, and Fezzan, its largest province, there are no telephone, telegraph or radio connections. Nor is there much homogeneity between the three provinces. Except for the late years of Italian rule (1935 until World War II), Tripolitania (pop. 800,000), Cyrenaica (pop. 300,000) and Fezzan (pop. 40,000) have never been jointly administered...
...Santa Ana, Calif. Register; Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph; Bucyrus, Ohio Telegraph-Forum; Clovis, N. Mex. News-Journal; Marysville, Calif. Appeal-Democrat; Odessa, Texas American; Pampa, Texas News...
...reshuffling his high command. He moved Washington Bureau Chief Edward C. Lapping in as executive editor of the ailing Chicago Herald-American. When Publisher Hearst dropped the empire's Saturday Home Magazine, Lapping put out his own Sunday supplement. Into the top spot on Pittsburgh's Sun-Telegraph went Albert E. Dale, a veteran Hearst editor who left twelve years ago, worked for NBC, also did public relations. Lee Ettleson, former executive editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, moved over to run the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, and more changes are in the offing for Detroit and other...