Word: wiredness
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In your issue of Dec. 21 why did you intentionally misquote the cable wired by your Rio de Janeiro representative in stating that tweedy Artist Biddie was "the first U.S. artist ever commissioned by a South American country to decorate public buildings." He reported to you - did he not - that...
* One trap: explosive charges wired to the bodies of dead Italians and Germans, which went off when British soldiers attempted to bury them.
> To keep radio communication with the people, Russia expanded its wired radio system, which operates over telephone lines. Each village got a loudspeaker; each city dweller could have one if he had a telephone circuit. From 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. the wired radio was busy with war bulletins, poetry...
Died. John Thomas ("Pappy Jack") Doyle, 66, the most reliable odds-maker in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Jacksonville. For 30 years owner of "Doyle's Billiard Rooms," hangout popular with Broadway sports, he was an elegantly dressed raconteur with a prodigious memory, who got to know...
Hastily, Tunesmith Berlin wired his Manhattan publishers to change "d-y" to "Negroes" in all future copies of the song. Said he: "No song is important enough to offend a whole race. I should never have released it had I known the epithet was objectionable."