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...phone pretty busy with imperious voices demanding different Sears departments. So busy, in fact, that the occupants had just about taken to answering with, "This is not Sears Roebuck, you have the wrong number." Happily, however, they decided on a different tack and in official voices began to greet callers with "Sears Roebuck, good morning." Above the phone they pasted a list of different Sears departments through which to shuttle the unsuspecting caller...
BELL Telephone Laboratories, Inc. has installed an experimental booth in Boston's South Station that has no conventional instrument -just a speaker and small microphone recessed in the wall, leaving a caller's hands free to jot down notes...
Culver also mentioned that signal-caller Jerry Marsh had "awful good football sense." But, according to Jordan, "It was the line that called Culver's touchdown play. They kept saying, 'We could do it,' before the fullback launched his 34-yard sprint...
...District Attorney Dewey started off forcefully, was running hard at the first turn. He 1) appointed a commission to investigate the race-track operations, and 2) moved for (and probably will get) the removal of Republican Leader Arthur Wicks of the state senate, who was a five-time caller at Joey Fay's Sing Sing cell. After his investigating commission reports. Dewey is expected to propose new laws to cut down the opportunities for shakedowns at the race tracks and also for labor racketeering anywhere in New York...
...third call," Ledterman said, "came early one morning. The caller said another call would be made to us ~at 11 a.m. At that hour, I was told another call would be made at 8 o'clock that night. At 8, the same man called and instructed me to go to a certain telephone booth in a hotel to await another call. At 11:30 o'clock that night, the call came in. The man was very jittery. He told me where to go and deposit the money...