Question: CHAPTER XXVIII 



A dozen times that morning, dictating to Blake or indicating answers, Dick had been on the verge of saying to let the rest of the correspondence go. 

"Call up Hennessy and Mendenhall," he told Blake, when, at ten, the latter gathered up his notes and rose to go. "You ought to catch them at the stallion barn. Tell them not to come this morning but to-morrow morning." 

Bonbright entered, prepared to shorthand Dick's conversations with his managers for the next hour. 

"And--oh, Mr. Blake," Dick called. "Ask Hennessy about Alden Bessie.-- The old mare was pretty bad last night," he explained to Bonbright. 

"Mr. Hanley must see you right away, Mr. Forrest," Bonbright said, and added, at sight of the irritated drawing up of his employer's brows, "It's the piping from Buckeye Dam. Something's wrong with the plans--a serious mistake, he says." 

Dick surrendered, and for an hour discussed ranch business with his foremen and managers. 

Once, in the middle of a hot discussion over sheep-dips with Wardman, he left his desk and paced over to the window. The sound of voices and horses, and of Paula's laugh, had attracted him. 

"Take that Montana report--I'll send you a copy to-day," he continued, as he gazed out. "They found the formula didn't get down to it. It was more a sedative than a germicide. There wasn't enough kick in it..." 

Four horses, bunched, crossed his field of vision. Paula, teasing the pair of them, was between Martinez and Froelig, old friends of Dick, a painter and sculptor respectively, who had arrived on an early train. Graham, on Selim, made the fourth, and was slightly edged toward the rear. So the party went by, but Dick reflected that quickly enough it would resolve itself into two and two.  1. How long did Dick discuss business?
2. With whom?
3. What kind of business where they talking about?
4. Which of the men left the conversation desk?
5. Where did he go?
6. What sound caught his interest?
7. Did he see her?
8. How many horses were near her?
9. Was Paula interacting with them?
10. Doing what?
11. Which one of Dick's friends was a painter?
12. Did he also know a sculptor?
13. Who?
14. Had they been friends for a long time?
15. When did they arrive?
16. Who was the rider at the back of the group? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. for an hour
2. his foremen and managers
3. ranch business
4. Dick
5. over to the window
6. Paula's laugh
7. Yes
8. Four horses
9. Yes
10. teasing them
11. Martinez
12. Yes
13. Froelig
14. Yes
15. an early train
16. Selim

Q: Hubert Joseph Schlafly was an electrical engineer who helped change the way actors, politicians and other people speak on television. In 1950, he and two other men developed the teleprompter. One co-worker, Fred Barton, was an actor. He had an idea for a tool that would help television actors read their lines without having to memorize them. The other co-worker was Irving Kahn. He worked as vice-president of radio and television at 20thCentury Fox. 

The first teleprompter involved a person who held a long piece of paper printed with big letters. As the actor read the lines, another person would move the paper ahead on the device . The teleprompter was first used on a television program called "The First Hundred Years." Later versions used television screens to show the words that were to be read. 

Hub Schlafly and his co-workers believed that many companies would want to buy the teleprompter. So, they left their jobs and created the TelePrompTer Corporation to sell their invention. 

In 1952, former President Herbert Hoover became the first politician to use a teleprompter. The former president was speaking at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, USA. For a brief time, he stopped reading and began to talk about a subject not written in his speech. When Hoover wanted to continue the speech, the words on the teleprompter were not moving. He then said the machine should be restarted and viewers became aware of the new invention. Many reporters wrote about that incident, creating a new level of publicity for the teleprompter. 

Soon more and more politicians started to use it to face the television camera while reading prepared statements, instead of looking down at their notes. Then the device was used for almost all live television broadcasts.

1. the teleprompter
2. no
3. two
4. Fred Barton and Irving Kahn
5. he was an actor
6. Vice President at 20th Century Fox
7. yes
8. to sell their invention
9. yes
10. the TelePrompTer Corporation
11. In 1950
12. Herbert Hoover
13. 1952
14. in Chicago
15. the Republican National Convention
16. yes
17. he said it should be restarted
18. yes
19. to continue his speech
20. the First Hundred Years

Numbered questions:
1. What did Joseph Schlafly help to create?
2. Did he do it alone?
3. How many others were there?
4. Who were they?
5. What was Fred's job?
6. What about Irving's?
7. Did they all quite their jobs?
8. why?
9. did they have a company?
10. What was it?
11. When did they create the teleprompter?
12. Who was the person in politics to use it?
13. When?
14. Where was he?
15. At what gathering?
16. Did he give away that he was using it?
17. How?
18. Did this serve as advertising for it?
19. Why did he need it?
20. What was the first show to use it?

input: The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a members of the National League (NL) Central division; the team plays its home baseball games at Wrigley Field. The Cubs are also one of two active major league teams based in Chicago; the other is the Chicago White Sox, who are a member of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is currently owned by Thomas S. Ricketts, son of TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts. 

The team played its first games in 1876 as a founding member of the National League (NL), eventually becoming known officially as the Chicago Cubs for the 1903 season. Officially, the Cubs are tied for the distinction of being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club, along with the Atlanta Braves, which also began play in the NL in 1876 as the Boston Red Stockings (Major League Baseball does not officially recognize the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players as a major league.) 1. When did the Chicago Cubs play their first game?
2. In which league?
3. Were they one of the original members?
4. Which team also began playing in 1876?
5. Were they known as anything else?
6. What?
7. What are they tied with the Cubs for?
8. In what division did the Cubs participate while in the National League?
9. Where are home games played?
10. Where in Chicago are they located?
11. Does Chicago have any other baseball teams?
12. How many?
13. Which team is it?
14. And in which league do they play?
15. And in which division?
16. Who owns the team?
17. What business did his father build?
18. In what year did the team officially become the Chicago Cubs? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. 1876
2. National League (NL)
3. yes
4. the Atlanta Braves
5. yes
6. the Boston Red Stockings
7. being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club
8. Central
9. Wrigley Field
10. the North Side
11. yes
12. one other
13. the Chicago White Sox
14. the American League (AL)
15. Central
16. Thomas S. Ricketts
17. TD Ameritrade
18. 1903