Word: canallers
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...After a satisfying lunch at the Stork Club, I was set upon and mugged. No one came to my assistance-no one except TIME, which thoughtfully supplied the number to call: CAnal 7-2000 [May 8]. I found there was no CAnal 7, but learned when one dials this number the response is Acme Fast Freight: BArclay...
...Next time try CAnal 6-2000 for New York's fast cops...
...cutting or grinding tool, but a complex piece of living matter. The part that shows, which dentists call the crown, is made of bonelike dentine wrapped in an enamel shell. The part that is hidden, which dentists call the root, consists of bonelike materials surrounding the root canal, which is filled with soft tissue, blood vessels and the tooth's nerve...
...someone goofed when it came to listing it in the police roster. Manhattanites are told to call SPring 7-3100, which is hard enough to remember and even harder to dial in the dark. When help finally does arrive, apologetic cops often advise, "Next time, call CAnal 7-2000," which is not the emergency number but the more prosaic listing for "all other business...
...Spanish merchant family named Labia started building a palace just off the Grand Canal. The palace's ultimate glory was a set of 18th century frescoes by Tiepolo, which depicted the story of Antony and Cleopatra with almost as much flair as the 20th Century-Fox film. With the extinction of the Labia clan, the palace turned into a squalid dump; illiterate boarders spent unknowing nights under the Tiepolos. In 1948, another Spaniard, the wealthy Don Carlos de Beistegui, now 78, rediscovered the palace, as he said, "with a violence of love and passion that no woman has inspired...