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...Davenport, Iowa, telephone number 323-1819 rang. The call was answered by a 71-year-old woman, a retired schoolteacher. "Hello," she said pleasantly. "This is your listener." Her caller said "Hello" back, but there was uncertainty in her voice. "Is this your first call to us?" the schoolteacher prompted gently. "Yes," came the reply. The subsequent conversation between two strangers went like this...
...only the second caller I've had tonight. I was getting lonesome...
...serve the aged, Dial-a-Listener occasionally gets calls from the young. One eleven-year-old boy, whose parents work, phones nearly every day after school, and sometimes late at night when he can't get to sleep. "I think I'm a homosexual," began another youthful caller. "Where can I get help?" He was referred to a social agency. Crank calls are rare. One high school girl rang up to ask how to divide 182 by 9; her listener, no arithmetician, was stumped...
Pegler reigned as the nation's most controversial pundit for three decades. As a name caller he had no equal. To be "Peglerized" became almost an honor. To Pegler, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was "little padrone of the Bolsheviki," Walter Winchell a "gents-room journalist," and Henry A. Wallace a "slobbering snerd." His most abiding hatred was for the Roosevelts. Berating F.D.R. and his family in column after column, he termed the President a "feebleminded fiihrer" and found it "regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara hit the wrong man when he shot at Roosevelt in Miami." He waged...
Jerry Seltzer, the president of Bay Promotions, Inc., in Oakland, Calif., is still fuming. When the TV show What's My Line? telephoned from New York to ask for one of his girl skaters to appear on the program, Seltzer says, the caller explained that the show was looking for someone with a "weird and unusual occupation-one that is nearly extinct." Obviously, says Seltzer, those isolated New Yorkers did not realize that he was promoting the Big Comeback of that riot on roller skates called the Roller Derby...