Word: telegramming
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...Peiping, heady with triumph, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung last week pondered this telegram from China's Acting President Li Tsung-jen. No victor in China's millennial history had ever received a more humble plea for mercy or a more complete admission of defeat...
...more or less competent work by most of the noted U.S. painters. But there was nothing surprising in the lot. The other 13 pictures in the show-culled from 2,000 entries in open competition-were no better and no worse than the invited ones. The New York World-Telegram's Emily Genauer, one of the few U.S. art critics with a nose for news, set out to discover how the jury had operated...
Inside, one dissenting voice was raised in protest. Armed with a telegram of encouragement from Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, Editor Norman Cousins, of the Saturday Review of Literature, spoke over boos and catcalls. To his fellow delegates he said: "I ask you to believe that the American people . . . are not speaking out against the idea of peace . . . They are speaking out against a small political group in this country which has failed to live up to the rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian...
...Moscow, Foo Ping-sheung, China's ambassador to Russia, pondered a telegram last week. It announced his appointment as Premier Ho Ying-chin's new foreign minister. Asked if he would accept, Foo said: "Wouldn't it be like jumping into the fire? ... I think people live longer in New Zealand...
...Harvard the Liberal Union said last night it has not yet received any answer to its Sunday telegram to Shostakovich inviting him to speak here in April...