McKim was a perfectionist, known to spend an hour revising a telegram that was in the end only 10 words long; he climbed up on the roof of the casino in Narragansett with a crowbar to dislocate shingles to give it an aged look.
On 4 August, clerks in the Foreign Office FOO) prepared the telegrams that were to go to every British diplomatic post abroad to let them know the empire was at war.
"The whole argument of this case is that there was a very clear system of communication running back and forth from the bottom to the top," much of it involving telegrams that are in evidence, said Alex Hinton, executive director of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights at Rutgers University.
He always resisted any attempts on the part of galleries or newspapers to create a biographical profile, and when a retrospective of his work was shown at the Tate Gallery, London, in 1968, he sent a telegram that could be summarised in this way: This artist is one about whom nothing need be known.
A lieutenant colonel, Georges Picquart, was put in charge of the Statistique, and soon realized, thanks to an intercepted telegram, that Esterhazy was the real culprit.
I can remember when my mother received the telegram that Vic was missing in action.
When Herman Mankiewicz lured Hecht to Hollywood, he sent a telegram that said, "Millions are to be grabbed out here and the only competition is idiots.
Scott was notified by telegram that a rival was in the field, but had little choice other than to continue with his own plans.
No your son was not dead, one of the Marine's told her, and handed her a telegram that said I was seriously wounded, one leg had been amputated, and I was in poor condition.
His 1961 "portrait" of the gallerist Iris Clert is a telegram that simply states: "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so".
