Word: telegraphers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Lord Camrose, 70, whose empire also includes 41 periodicals,* keeps a sharp eye on his paper. But for 25 years, Editor Arthur Ernest Watson, a quiet-spoken man who insists on crisp, accurate writing, has made most of the day-to-day journalistic judgments at the outspokenly Tory Telegraph. Not long after Watson moved into the editor's chair, the Telegraph had only 84,000 readers; in 1947, its circulation hit 1,000,000. (Later, in the postwar newsprint shortage, the Telegraph made a voluntary circulation cut of 100,000, has been moving steadily back toward the million mark...
Right Hand. A fortnight ago, in the Telegraph's erudite gossip column, "London Day by Day," by "Peterborough" (Hugo Wertham), an unobtrusive item recorded an exceptional occurrence at the Telegraph itself. After 48 years on the staff, 70-year-old Editor Watson was retiring. His successor, who took over last week: grey-haired Colin Reith Coote, 56, deputy editor and Watson's right-hand man for the last five years...
...general election of 1922, recalls Coote, "was the first time the voters really had a crack at me-and that ended my political career." Ex-M.P. Coote became a foreign correspondent and later chief editorial writer for the Times; in 1942 he moved over to the Telegraph. A knowledgeable wine lover, he has written articles for both the Times and the Telegraph on wines, has also co-edited an anthology (Maxims and Reflections) from the writings and speeches of his close friend, Winston Churchill...
Byline-Bagger. The Telegraph got off to a fast start 95 years ago by charging twopence when rival dailies were selling for fivepence. Soon after, it halved its price, became London's first penny daily; in 1888 its circulation soared to an unheard...
...Telegraph joined forces with the New York Herald to send Stanley in search of Livingstone, has helped underwrite many other expeditions and has run exclusive, circulation-catching stories about them. A newspaper with a heart, the Telegraph has raised thousands of pounds for disaster victims, collected ?135,000 to help build a new Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford-on-Avon after the old one burned down...