Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brains. Others in the new braintrust: Editor Richard Lauterbach of '48, part-time adviser on layout and features; Lawrence Resner, who left a labor reporting job on the New York Times to be Crum's right-hand man; Managing Editor Jay Odell, a Nieman Fellow and former telegraph editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. PM Editor John P. Lewis, who had kept the staff together during eight uncertain weeks, was out on the street...
Live Wire. In Boston, Telegraph Clerk Virginia Sullivan carefully counted the ten words of a customer's message, handed over $500 as soon as she had absorbed it: "This is a stickup. Quiet and you won't get hurt...
...last communications link was gone. A member of the rebel underground pressed a note into my sleeve promising uncensored use of Tropical Radio's transmitter at Cartago, Figueres' provisional capital. So I borrowed a jacket and a pair of hiking shoes and, with a Tropical Radio telegraph operator, lit out over the mountains for Cartago...
...Irving Berlins' daughter Mary Ellin-whose maternal grandfather was Postal Telegraph Magnate Clarence Mac-kay-became engaged to Dennis Sheedy Burden, a socialite with a Newport background. This moved Manhattan's earthy...
...wanted to file from Kavalla, but the telegraph official had never seen a cable in English before and his apparatus seemed to date from pre-Edison days. I tried to get back to Salonika by rail, but the train blew up before I got in. I tried to go by bus, but the busses were not running because one of them had smashed up on a mine the day before. The airplane was the only solution, but, although we went to the airfield daily, the plane did not come in until Thursday...