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Across the continent, in Providence, R.I., Ben Bagdikian calls Operator 25 his "favorite Western Union employee." She seems to know what time he arrives home, once told his wife: "When he gets home at 5:30, will you have him call Operator 25? I've got a long one from TIME." She knows wires are to be sent to his office after they are read to him. Says Bagdikian: "She is a sympathetic audience and often giggles appreciatively at a query, but is also capable of indignation. She is a pretty good barometer of telegraphic opinion. When TIME asks...
...What Bagdikian remembers most vividly about Operator 25 concerns a wire he once sent about a proposal by Rhode Island Governor Dennis ]. Roberts that the state build industrial plants for leasing to private firms. Roberts called the plan "a lively experiment." Bagdikian explained thai the expression came from the inscription on the State House, which he quoted from memory: "To hold forth a lively experiment that a most flourishing state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty in religious concernments." A little later he got a message to call Operator 25. Shouldn't the quotation read...