Word: telegrapher
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What he was talking about was the grim adventure last week of Frank Emery, 23, International News Service Correspondent, and Randolph Churchill, 39, of the London Daily Telegraph. After several days at "Sioggerville" (correspondents' slang for a dangerous sector), Emery and Churchill had gone to a quiet sector for a rest. There, a G.I. braced them: "You fellows always talk to the brass and never give us a break. Why don't you come on patrol with us tonight and tell the people back home how tough it is ... There won't be any danger. We know...
...than the American, is like the little girl with mid-forehead curl. No U.S. yellow journal is worse than Britain's biggest & worst, News of the World. But few U.S. newspapers can match the literary quality and accuracy of Britain's best (e.g., the London Times, London Telegraph). And in a half-dozen opinionated weeklies, the British press sets a standard, intellectual and literary, that is unmatched elsewhere...
Debonair Columnist Joe Alsop flew in to Tokyo with five pieces of luggage en route to Korea, was finally convinced that he needed only a single musette bag. Randolph Churchill, representing the London Daily Telegraph, caused an uproar in Tokyo's Press Club by demanding that he be allowed to sign chits for drinks before he had plunked down his membership deposit. (He was put out.) Almost every newcomer expected to be taken out for one last binge in Tokyo before leaving for the front...
Randolph Churchill, 39, greying son of Winston, wartime crack Commando major and more recently a lecturer and newspaper pundit, was off to Korea where he will report the war for the London Daily Telegraph...
...turned out to be Stanley Spencer's Resurrection, a large and rowdy panorama of an English country graveyard at. the last trump (TIME, May 8). Last week, oldtimers were flooding the London press with protests. Wrote a Daily Telegraph reader: "If the Chantrey trustees, impervious to public opinion, choose to exhibit these abnormal pictures, may I pray their hanging committee may hang beside them...