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...other characters make brief appearances. Mr. Wingfield grins eternally from a portrait which is inexplicably being used to prop open the Victrola; I can't imagine Williams' Amanda tolerating such treatment of a picture of the man she chose over seventeen more promising gentlemen callers. Ken Bartels saunters into the Wingfields' home as Jim, the man who comes to dinner as Laura's first gentleman caller and the focus of all Amanda's hopes for her child. His pocket full of gum wrappers, Bartels's Jim is appropriately more whimsical, but just as ebullient as the high school hero Laura...
...Washington, D.C. (dial 333-RAPE), lines are open from 7:30 a.m. to midnight. Most of the rape squads follow similar procedures. At the Washington center, the volunteers first determine if the rape victim wants to go to the police. There is no pressure to report the crime; the caller is simply briefed on what to expect during police interrogations and during physical examinations at hospitals or by private doctors. If she decides to go to the police, the center will send a sympathetic volunteer with her to give emotional support and to deter male officers from taking a voyeuristic...
Although police have found neither the coins nor the youths, Daniel J. Robbins, director of the Fogg Art Museum, said that an anonymous phone caller told a museum guard on Friday that the coins would be returned sometime this week. Robbins added that a reward has been offered for the return of the coins--how much he declined...
...service of a sort. On incoming calls a messenger from the telephone service center appears at the Chengs' door. The messenger fee is 1½?. Then, by paying another 2? at the service center a couple of blocks away, Cheng can connect with the calling party, provided the caller has stayed put at his own telephone center...
...report on the "Fleming Follow" is already in, complete with mock-scientific charts detailing who went in the front door and who went in the back. The tally: of 124 visitors only 21 were women. The composite caller? "Male, white, 50-60 years old...dressed in a blue suit...balding...somewhat out of condition...either ignoring the secretaries or flirting with them, exhibiting an air of self-confidence and likely to remove his coat at some point of the meeting." Such lampoonery, explains Pringle Smith, editor of the business school magazine and a member of the ad hoc committee...