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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Patriarch left, the President's desk phone rang. On the other end of the line was W. J. Pace, a farmer of Alamance County, N.C. Farmer Pace was calling because he is the proud owner of the one-millionth rural telephone installed by the Bell system since V-J day. He and the President chatted for a short time, and Mr. Truman learned that there are now 2,330,000 rural telephones...
Saved by the Bell. Mrs. Yamashita tried to change the subject. "You," she told the Finance Minister, "have the important supplementary budget to attend to, and should not be acting like this." Retorted Izumiyama: "Who cares about the budget? I love you." Mrs. Yamashita rose from the table, with Izumiyama in pursuit. He cornered her in a corridor, vainly sought to kiss her. Finally he connected, but with a bite to the cheek instead of a kiss. Mrs. Yamashita countered with a right to the Finance Minister's head, then broke away...
...this point, another woman Diet member, Miss Toshi Matsuo, wandered into view. Izumiyama, his eyes lighting on Miss Matsuo, straightened, smiled, politely offered to shake hands. "But instead of then freeing my hand," Miss Matsuo exclaimed, "he held it tight and pulled me." Miss Matsuo was saved by a bell summoning her and other Diet members, drunk or sober, to the night session, which convened at 8:47 p.m.* The Finance Minister, however, did not respond. He stretched out on a sofa in the corridor, and lay there, face up, eyes closed...
...window a little lady braves a lion's den to win a fox furpiece), and "A Stitch in Time . . ." (a doll-size girl sews a rhinestone on to a life-size silk stocking). Another proverb, "People Who Live in Glass Houses" called for two figures under a glass bell in the center of a residential square (see cut). The giant hands accusing them from neighboring doors and windows were meant to advertise Bonwit's gloves...
...bring Leadom to school, engineers of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. had rigged up an experimental machine called the "Teletalk." A special telephone circuit connects two sets of microphones and loudspeakers-one set in Teacher Fleda Cox's classroom, the other in Pupil Beatty's bedroom. Says Principal Dorothy Swope, who sold Southwestern Bell the idea: "It's surprising. When Leadom was actually in class, he was reticent. Now perhaps because he's called on more than anyone else, and because the other children have made him the most important member of their group...