Word: dialed
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CANNIBALS AND CHRISTIANS by Norman Mailer. 400 pages. Dial...
During his 27-year Manhattan ministry, Bonnell preached to 3,000,000 listeners weekly over his radio program, which he inherited from Harry Emerson Fosdick. He was also one of the first to apply science to salvation through "Dial-a-Prayer," whereby callers can phone a number (Circle 6-4200) and listen to a 30-second recorded inspirational message...
...July 8], TIME notes that "to many a telephone user, it comes as a surprise to learn that even small independent companies have modern equipment and first-rate service." To enlarge upon this: the independents are responsible for most of the innovations and advancements in telephone exchange facilities. The dial telephone was developed and in general use among independent companies long before it was adopted by Bell. Another feature in general use by independents for half a century (but not yet used by Bell) is full selective ringing on rural multiparty lines. Independents introduced the handset or cradle-type telephone...
...just one of those executives, American's present chairman, C.R. Smith, who conceived the show in 1953, after a frustrating night of "flipping the dial on my radio and not finding anything worth listening to." Recalls Smith: "I don't usually let personal preferences enter into business decisions, so I guess this was an exception." He met with CBS President Frank Stanton, discovered that Stanton was "something of a night owl himself." CBS and American jointly formulated the music show. Its records were to be, in Smith's words, "on a high, not necessarily highbrow, level...
...street have the right to push a button and say whether or not I should play in the series?" Veteran Producer Herbert (The Defenders) Brodkin wonders: "How you would enjoy a Broadway show if at every moment you were conscious of having to push a button or turn a dial...