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...third year as President of the U.S., Dwight Eisenhower addressed himself, publicly and frankly, to the prime political question of the U.S. and the world. Before his 77th formal press conference, crowded by 290 reporters, cluttered by the paraphernalia of TV cameras and cables, the President read out a telegram he said he was sending to Harry E. Jackson, the deputy secretary of state of New Hampshire...
...Price, 35, police reporter who has worked for the New York Daily News since 1940 except for 4½ years as a wartime Navy flyer. He refused to answer questions on Communist activities-or to take the Fifth. Daily News Executive Editor Richard Clarke promptly fired Price by telegram, charging that his conduct at the hearing had "destroyed [his] usefulness" to the News...
...Tomasz Arciszewski, leader of the Polish government-in-exile in London, addressed a telegram to Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yalta. Perhaps the most forlorn of the 43 documents, the telegram shows how the U.S. and Britain might at least have emerged from Yalta with honor...
Showman Billy Rose wrote: "A heart-warming salute and an endearing one." Retired Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney seconded Rose's sentiment with a telegram: "Louis, that TIME article is the finest I have ever seen...
...fact that the hard-boiled Pic had been taken in by a prankster. Then Randolph needled the Kemsley Sunday Graphic for announcing, but never printing, a "revealing, exciting, touching" series called "Those Churchill Girls." The reason the series never saw print, suggested Randolph in the Spectator, lay in a telegram he had sent to Lord Kemsley (family name: Berry), reading in part: WONDER WHETHER I COULD HAVE YOUR COOPERATION FOR SERIES I AM PLANNING FOR "DAILY MIRROR" AND GLASGOW "DAILY RECORD" ENTITLED "THOSE BERRY GIRLS" . . . WARMEST REGARDS TO YOU AND ALL THE BERRY GIRLS...