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From Yenan came Mao's reply to Chiang: "I shall consider the question of meeting you after you express your opinion about General Chu Teh's telegram." This was followed by another telegram from Chu Teh, demanding Communist co-authority to receive the surrender of Japanese forces. "You must publicly admit your mistake," said Chu Teh to Chiang, "and publicly retract your order. . ..." The alternative: civil...
Telegraphic Ornaments. The Board of War Communications resurrected a pre-war U.S. institution, the singing telegram, and hastened to add that this amenity would not be allowed to confuse the nation's serious business. Also back: congratulatory telegrams. Still missing: such Western Union innovations as shopping and messenger service, sale of traveler's checks, and acceptance of express packages...
...director, a native of Portland, Me., has been in the newspaper business for more than 20 years. Starting with the Portland Evening Express, he later shifted to the Portland Press Herald and Portland Sunday Telegram; in 1929 he went to Paris to join the staff of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune...
Charlie Chaplin, in the midst of thorny court troubles at home, suddenly got a red, red rose from abroad. Russian and Czech cinemen sent him a telegram expressing "deep respect to you . . . who . . . have always defended the principles of humanism...
Married. John Erskine, 65, best-selling romantic satirist (Adam & Eve, Influence of Women - And Its Cure); and Helen Worden, 49, journeywoman-writer and ex-New York World-Telegram reporter; he for the second time, she for the first; in Albuquerque, N.M., three days after his Reno divorce from Pauline Ives Erskine...