The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, February 07, 2006  

NICE WORK . . .
If You Can Get It

This sentence, pulled from "Telegram Falls Silent Stop Era Ends Stop," by Shelly Freierman in yesterday's New York Times, stopped me in my tracks:

At one point, according to Amy Fischer, the company historian for Western Union, employees would attend major sporting events, sending play-by-play via a telegraph machine to an announcer at a radio station. [Emphasis added.]

So, I have to ask, Is that a full-time job?

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