Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with mad logic from the very gleam with which MacGowran first so casually confides the notion of his "sucking stones." MacGowran has found, too, Beckett's lilting Celtic love of the earth that resonates unexpectedly with Dylan Thomas-except that where Thomas pounded and battered his great brass bell, Beckett touches his once and lets the sound...
...idea of a magazine was suggested by Jonathan Blount, then 24 and an ad salesman for the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. "All right," said the Shearson, Hammill adviser. "There's Cecil Hollingsworth behind you, and he knows about printing. And Ed Lewis over here is a financial planner for First National City Bank, and he knows financial planning." Joined by Clarence Smith, a salesman for Prudential Insurance, the foursome began getting together at the end of their regular workdays. From publishing talent up and down Manhattan's Madison and Sixth Avenues, they picked up ideas and expertise...
...most U.S. cities, vandals rip off dials, bash in faceplates, amputate receivers and show promise of elevating phone-booth burglary to a fine art. Now Ma Bell has turned to a new "hands free" phone that may help thwart vandals. Placed in Manhattan at Pennsylvania and Grand Central stations and one outdoor location, the new models have already surprised-and disconcerted-thousands of callers...
Originally built by Bell Telephone Laboratories for installation in large booths at the New York World's Fair in 1964, the phones were designed to permit whole families at a time to tell the folks back home how much they were enjoying their visit. In the new, normal-size booths, the phone at first glance looks as if it has already been vandalized. There is no receiver-only a steel wall with a grille that hides-and protects-a recessed microphone. A loudspeaker is in the ceiling. Press a button, put in a dime, dial your number, and turn...
...longer seize the receiver and use it to bludgeon the instrument into oblivion. The hands-free public phone may eventually replace many of the traditional booths in big cities. Though its sturdy, simple construction should frustrate vandalism, it is obviously no cure-all for all of Ma Bell's problems; while checking out the four new phones at Pennsylvania Station recently, a traveler discovered that two were out of order...