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...Time for Obits. From far and wide next day the tributes poured in. Great contemporaries, heads of state, ancient enemies, old colleagues, distant admirers, journalists, historians, soldiers, statesmen and plain men in the street took to their typewriters, their telegraph pads, their microphones, their notepaper or simply the local pub to heap praise on a career that has seldom been matched...
...After a one-day respite, the selling again spread through the list, to the railroads, steels, oils, motors. By week's end blue-chip losses ran to 3⅜ points for U.S. Steel (76½), 5⅞ for Jersey Standard (110), 4¼ for American Telephone & Telegraph (179¼), 5⅛ for General Motors (92⅞). In five days the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 19 points, to 401.08-lower than where it started the year...
Underwear & Hair Tonic. In a nation where a change of a royal hairdo is news, covering the royal family is often the world's most frustrating assignment. Only two reporters are accredited to Buckingham Palace, representatives of the Press Association and Exchange Telegraph wire services. They act as little more than messengers, daily picking up carefully prepared handouts from the Queen's press secretary, Commander Richard Colville. A Scot whose titled family has long served in the royal household, Colville joined the Royal Navy in 1925, served on the royal yacht, was tapped by King George...
...resignation. Led by United Press Correspondent Kenneth Brodney. the newsmen bolted for the door, raced down four flights of stairs, and ran across three large Kremlin courtyards to their cars. While they scribbled notes, Russian chauffeurs sped them over the city's slush-covered streets to the Central Telegraph Office. Brodney got there first, put through a phone call to London and scored a clean 19-minute beat in the U.S. with the news...
Telephone rates for all Cambridge service will be raised today, the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company has announced. Basic charges for residential unlimited suburban service will be raised 50 cents per month...