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A girl read the telegram out loud and asked her boy friend, 'What does A. P. mean?' "I think 'After Peace," he said... View Article Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor and staff writer at The New Yorker.
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Telegram stands out because of its strong encryption (making intelligence services unhappy).
In Britain, telegrams were replaced by Telemessages, which were simply telegrams printed out and put into the post, in 1982.
And as concession and acceptance speeches were held, the first of the congratulatory telegrams went out to the winner.
Two days later, several urgent telegrams went out from Grant's headquarters in obedience to that demand: "By direction of the General in Chief of the Army at Washington," they read, "the General Order from these Head Quarters expelling Jews from this Department is hereby revoked".
The telegrams, clicked out by about 1,500 telegraph operators, many of whom did a bit of editorializing, are remarkable literature, shorthand sketches of a United States at the brink of collapse.
A few days later, Chester's friend Edward Field received a telegram: "Am flung out going Provincetown love Alfred".
The senator from Arizona does not flaunt these things -- the telegram hangs out of view, behind a door -- and he does not often talk of his other life.
Project SHAMROCK had been underway since 1945, and was gathering every telegram sent out of the country with the help of the telegraph companies, and scanning them, for intelligence purposes.
Author cannot account for the World-Telegram's missing out on the obvious feature idea.
The business of sending and receiving telegrams effectively died out in the 1990's.
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