Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wire Service. In St. Paul, after complaining to his newsboy of late deliveries, early-rising Dewey Friedman got a note in return: "Enclosed please find my telephone number. Will you please call me every morning at 5 a.m. so I won't be late with your papers...
...posed with two beauty queens, one of whom was a Negro ("Note her California tan," said Brown). Seeing a map illustrating California's big plans for a statewide water system (TIME, June 29), Kozlov observed: "Socialism is helping capitalism." Replied "Pat" Brown quickly: "We don't call it that." Later, Roman Catholic...
...clank of beer mugs, the four mountaineers tossed off a heady toast one night last summer and then sat down to plan their assault. They had picked a formidable foe: the continent's highest mountain, 20,320 ft. of rock, ice and swirling snow that Alaskan Indians call "the Great One." McKinley had been climbed 13 times since 1913, but never by the precipitous southern route, a feat considered the greatest pioneering climb remaining in North America...
...running gag about a bear named Carmichael that he kept in the cellar and that had eaten the gasman when he came to read the meter. The novelty and jolt of the sickniks is that their gags ("I hit one of those things in the street-what do you call it, a kid?") come so close to real horror and brutality that audiences wince even as they laugh...
...weirder routines, Bruce imagines Evangelist Oral Roberts putting in a long-distance call to the Vatican: "Hello, John, what's shaking, baby? Say, that puff of white smoke was genius. By the way, Billy Graham wants to know if you can get him a deal on those Eyetalian sports cars." Appearing at San Francisco's hungry i last week (at $2,500 a week), Bruce seemed to amuse most of the customers, outraged many, and quickly got into a feud with the San Francisco Chronicle's celebrated columnist Herb Caen, who called Bruce a bore. Lenny retaliated...