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Like several of the other jockeys, Ballance himself is often the object of attention. "My name is Linda," said one caller, "and I love you." Most of the t.j.s, in fact, are too busy to do much but read and gear up for the next day's show. "No matter how far out a subject might be," says Judge Rowe, "I'll wager someone will call up and discuss it." Beyond hard work and a gift of gab, however, the t.j.s have little in common. Though they usually try to create the impression that they are young...
Eddie (Albert Finney) hums a lot of '50s rock 'n' roll, and the closest he has got to Vegas is a workingman's club in Liverpool, where he works as a bingo caller and occasional stand-up comic, telling what might be called shaggy canary stories to the appreciative customers. As for The Maltese Falcon, Eddie isn't so much interested in writing it as living...
Cobb has become such a helpful listener that customers even telephone him at home for advice. Now that he knows how to recognize mental illness and has met a psychiatrist interested in ghetto residents, he sometimes tells a caller, "Hey, I know a fellow and I'll call him and you can just talk for a while. He's not going to lock you up, man, don't worry...
Shortly after the bomb went off at 1:40 a.m., the United Press International (UPI) received a call from an unidentified man who said that the bomb "was the first of a series of bombings planned throughout the country for March." The caller claimed to be a member of the United Black Underground Military Group for Black Justice...
...bomb had gone off just two days earlier in the 39-story Post Office Tower, London's tallest building. The blast caused no injuries but sent glass and masonry crashing almost 500 feet to the street. A telephone caller claimed that the explosion had been set off by a London faction of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A. leaders in Dublin denied responsibility) and that "the next one will be the Victoria Tower [of Parliament...