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...artists as Da Vinci, Rubens, Raphael, Titian and Rembrandt. Conceived by Morse and Novelist James Fenimore Cooper (the creator along with Cooper and his family are the spectators in the work), Gallery was painted by Morse in 1832, about the same time he turned his inventive talents to the telegraph and Morse code. Terra, a chemical industry magnate who is President Reagan's ambassador-at-large for cultural affairs, bought the work (with his own money) in the hope of fulfilling Morse and Cooper's dream. Says the happy new owner: "Here you have these two great figures...
Robert Bates, Manning is the professional descendant of David Homer Bates, whose operators scribbled out Civil War battle reports from Morse code rattling Abraham over the telegraph lines. Bates often handed the war news to Abraham Lincoln on his melancholy evening visits to the office next to the White House...
...that 22 years, Manning, 50, worked at the approximate site of that old telegraph terminal, but only the legends of Lincoln's days remained. When Manning retired three weeks ago, as head of the White House's travel and telegraph impresario he was known in governments around the world as the impresario of transport and electronics for that modern phenomenon of communication called the White House press corps. It was Manning who helped keep the news umbilical hooked up to the presidency, from Lahore to Reykjavik. He traveled 4 million miles in the line of duty...
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s long-awaited subsidiary, Baby Bell, came into the world last week. Some baby. The company, which will be known as American Bell, immediately had 1,000 employees and $59 million in assets from its corporate parent. Unlike AT&T, the offspring will be free of federal regulation and will thus be able to venture into the growing fields of information processing and computers...
This sort of diversity can be seen by looking at the three companies for which Harvard had to cast proxy votes this year on nuclear weapons related issues: The General Electric Co. The Du Pont Co and The American Telephone and Telegraph...