Word: calling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio repair work, Trusty Bill eventually put together three short-wave transmitters. He hid two of them near his bunk and one in a tiny guardhouse which trusties used. Then, while prison guards were not looking, Moody became an amateur radio "ham." For the last four years, using the call letters W5BNK, he has held early-morning gab sessions with amateurs in neighboring states. To his friends on the air, Bill was just another ham; he never admitted that he was a prisoner. For Bill, chatting casually in the complicated lingo of radio hamdom, it was almost like being...
...when more jobs rolled in, e.g., a television maker wanted him to draw up sketches for a new line of cabinets. "Fine," said Loewy. "I spent $2,000 on my own set and it hasn't worked right since I bought it." From Glamour magazine came a phone call: How about an article on theater design? "Wonderful," said Loewy. "I've been waiting for a chance to tell everyone what's wrong with theaters." Then Loewy paced nervously through the various cubicles where his associates were planning new designs for everything from tiepins to locomotives...
...snag is that few ears besides Author Maugham's are likely to pick up the trumpet call of inspiration from yesterday's commonplaces ("The [Fijian] chief who received me was a nephew of the last king and . . . was dressed in a pair of short white pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind...
Spurred by righteous clubwomen, the town marshal took Janie away from her foster parents and brought her to the generous Smiths, who let her share Lillian's room, clothes and toys. But one day, after a phone call from an orphanage, Lillian was told Janie would have to leave...
Miss Luce claimed last night that a "wild maniac" had called her up and demanded $5000 "or you won't appear on opening night." The actress, who opens Wednesday night in Shaw's. "The Millionairess," said she received the call Thursnight night and was too frightened to attend rehearsal Friday...