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Voice Mail. When advertising executives in Doyle Dane Bernbach's San Francisco office want to reach staffers traveling around the U.S. or Europe, they simply tap out a telephone number and leave a message in an electronic "voice mailbox," a kind of computerized answering service. Later the traveling employees can listen at their convenience. Says Executive Vice President Brice Schuller: "Most of us are usually on the go, so we just dump a message into a guy's phone mailbox and he can step into any phone booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Bells Are Ringing | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

PRINCETON, N J--On April Fool's Day--coincidentally, the due date for Comparative Literature theses--three extra mysterious theses-- were placed in the mailbox of David Quint, a Princeton professor of Comparative Literature, a half hour before the deadline...

Author: By James S. Mcguire, | Title: April Fool's Theses | 4/17/1982 | See Source »

Once they settle in they feel no inch nation to drop their cultural baggage (it got them this far didn't it) so they maintain previously cultivated routines mornings runs afternoon swims evening basketball. Even mailbox heads who spend all night at the computer keyboard keep on twitching enough to pour-out a couple buckets of sweat every...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Straus Cup Casualities | 4/10/1982 | See Source »

Rurarz seems to enjoy the attention how has received from the U.S Government, Loofbourrow said. The Pole told him that he would have his FBI agents "run the piece down to the mailbox," after the final deal was struck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Diplomat Comments on Poland | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

Certainly not Putney's most famous literary resident. The mailbox at the foot of the road leading to John and Shyla Irving's house is flat black and conspicuously free of lettering. But the sign on the garage at the top of t he road reads THE DOG BITES. He does, too, under the name of Stranger, part shepherd, part Husky, part senile. One whiff of the garage where Stranger lies dreaming is enough to realize who probably inspired Sorrow, the old Labrador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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