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Before Bernstein spoke, Golomb urged members to telegraph Secretary Marshall endorsing the majority report of the special U. N. committee on Palestine...
...dispatches, many a U.S. paper used such headlines as TROOPS WIELD CLUBS TO EMPTY SHIP. From behind the same screens, British reporters saw British troops using restraint, helping old women and children down the gangplanks and generally behaving like gentlemen. A typical British headline (in the London Daily Telegraph-): JEWS USE BOTTLES & CLUBS ON TROOPS. The Evening News admitted that there had been fighting aboard the Runnymede Park. But debarkation from the Empire Rival, it reported, "was characterized by good spirits on the part of both the escort troops and the Jews. As they left the ship many Jews thanked...
Gould & Goud's editorial staff is blonde Marjorie Beech, imported from England, where she was a telegraph operator in the WRENS. Because names make the Enterprise's news, Marjorie is working hard to develop its squad of eight rural correspondents, all hired because they had no experience. Last week, on one of his new radio programs, Editor Gould had all eight in for an ad-libbed chat. "How many people in Methodist Corner?" he asked one. "About 15 families," she told him. And how did she get the news?,Well, by telephone, mostly. "Are they...
...thought to himself, "Here I am, a young punk from California. . . ." But was he nervous? "No. I looked at the King the same way he looked at me. ... I guess both of us figured the other was pretty good in his own line." Said London's Daily Telegraph of Big Jake: "The only one of the postwar generation who could have lived in the company of such great champions as Lacoste and Tilden...
...Numbers. American Telephone and Telegraph Co. will ask its stockholders to authorize the largest financing transaction in U.S. corporate history-a new issue of $354 million convertible debentures. With this sum, the funds raised by A.T. & T. for postwar expansion will reach a whopping $1,220 million...