Word: wiredness
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When Kitty Fischman had her first baby she wired her old city editor on the Chicago Times: "Can you use a good newspaperman?" He wired back: "I sure can." Kitty has kept the lad working toward the job ever since.
But Jones has the permanent gratitude of most of his former protégés. Before Jack Kramer and his wife sailed for Wimbledon this spring, they wired him: "We want you to know that we realize you have done this for us." Ex-Jones boys who become champions...
The following fall, Al Jolson, between recorded songs in Warner's The Jazz Singer, did some ad-lib talking: "You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks. Listen to this." Audiences were enchanted. After Warner's 1928 Lights of New York, the first all-talking feature, more...
Dwight Eisenhower, General of the Army, and his four brothers (Milton, Earl, Arthur and Edgar), looking alike as five fish in a fry, hit out for Wisconsin's lakelands and their first vacation together since 1926. Governor Goodland wired a welcome, assigned the party two guides. Ike landed the...
Hearstly Hoax. In 1898, Hearst sent him to Cuba to wait for the Spanish-American War. (When Remington complained that there was no war, Hearst, in a cable that unfriendly Hearst biographers love to quote, wired: "You furnish the pictures; I'll furnish the war.")