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...Walter Gifford, 66, now U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, former board chairman of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Born in Salem, Mass., he is a self-made man who began as a clerk, rose to the presidency of A.T.& T. by the time he was 40. Quiet and retiring, he is a veteran of wartime posts in government consulting agencies, served as the first U.S. relief administrator under President Herbert Hoover during the depression. A Republican, he was picked with State Department concurrence. Though by inclination he avoids entertaining, he has studiously cultivated British ministers...
Feed box. The Telegraph's comprehensive coverage of racing is zealously accurate. It prints past performances, charts and ratings, perhaps half a million digits each day, a printing task which would stagger most newspapers. But its reports seldom err. Most of them are in a jargon no layman can understand. Example: A line on one of the entries in the second race at Florida's Tropical Park one day last week carried this report on Stormy Ruth, a two-year-old bay filly by Little Beans-Witchwater, by St. James, bred by J. Tucci, trained by M. Fife...
Collecting and keeping such an endless stream of racing information is an intricate business. Crews of Perlman's men- dockers, chart-callers, call-takers, reporters-cover every major North American race. To transmit the information, the Telegraph has its own teletype circuits. It also keeps in type, ready to print, the up-to-date records of more than 30,000 horses...
...industrial dispersion has been on a voluntary basis. Nevertheless, some cities have drawn up their own plans. In Seattle, Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week announced plans for an auxiliary long-distance center "15 miles from the present headquarters. But after Jan. i, the Government will put on the pressure. It will grant fast tax write-offs on new plants only if they are built where Washington thinks they should...
...first message sent by Samuel Morse on May 24,1844 over his new telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore...