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Shortly thereafter, Daveron and the R.D.C. agents in Rio had a difference of opinion. Daveron wanted to push west through the plains of Bolivia, then north to the rubber country. The R.D.C. preferred the route that followed the old telegraph line strung diagonally across the great Brazilian plateau by General Candido Mariano Rondon, a famed Indianologist. Neither side budged. So the R.D.C., despairing of the mules project, sold most of the beasts...
...powerful, 175-lb. French Canadian, Maurice Richard is deservedly the highest-paid player in hockey ($9,000 a year). He has a whiplike getaway: in three strides he can be at full speed; he doesn't telegraph his goal shots: the puck is in flight almost before the goalie knows Richard has snapped his stick. His only serious shortcoming, which Howie Morenz did not share, is a weakness on back-checking; critics call him a "one-way player." But his scoring strength offsets that defect...
Roberts is a 300-lb. mass of steaming energy. He starts his day at 6:30a.m. in bed over coffee, orange juice and his morning Times. At 9 he roams the newsroom, mussing a sportswriter's hair, thwacking the telegraph editor on the back. He shakes hands with the copy girls, greets the office pink as Comrade, the city-desk horseplayer as Seabiscuit, the Navy veterans as Admiral. The rest of the day, he holds court...
More than 500 telephones were plugged into Cambridge main lines over the weekend after having tantalized subscribers by remaining unconnected for weeks in their rooms or apartments. B.A. Dwyer, Cambridge manager of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company reported on Saturday that "many of the instruments" are in College Houses...
...typewriters, shorthand, telephones and Dictaphones; "Don't Write -Telegraph" was a well-worked slogan, and undecipherable signatures passed for "character" in great & small...