Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawn into the headquarters building of Newport Naval Base and into President Eisenhower's vacation office. The Secretary of State drew a chair up to the left of the President's desk, reported that he had finished drafting the statement that they had been planning by phone for three days. "Let's have a look at it," said...
Stacked Plane. In Hialeah, Fla., Charles R. Morris, who reportedly made a $100 bet with a man in a Hialeah bar that the plane the man was about to catch would be late taking off, was arrested for making a hoax phone call to Eastern Air Lines reporting a bomb on the aircraft...
...Piccadilly, wish to contact the lady who sat . . ."). With Academy Secretary Humphrey Brooke, Wheeler spent long hours sifting scores of replies from families who claimed that the real model was one of their kin. "Signora Ossorio herself did not answer the advertisement," said Brooke, "but I received an anonymous phone call giving me her phone number in London." Wheeler and Brooke tracked down the new lead, found an Edie Ossorio "still fascinating, vivacious, certainly not looking her 84 years...
...Avenue office. Not all of them had been picked off the street-some hopefuls apply by mail, some are chosen from a show's studio audience, others are found by research, e.g., when a show-packaging firm needed a couple that had just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, phone calls to catering services finally found one. Wherever they came from, Diane's victims were first subjected to a deceptively friendly interview. Within minutes she knew whether they had the scrubbed All-American look that goes big on Dotto, or whether they were "up" enough (i.e., extraverts and potential...
...when the phone rang in the Cannes hotel room of Jean Cerrone, company manager of Manhattan's touring American Ballet Theatre. The news: a twelve-ton truck carrying most of the company's gear had gone up in flames. Cerrone mumbled "Merci," went back to sleep, 15 minutes later woke up again in a horrified double take. By the time he got to the scene of the fire, all the company's wardrobe trunks had been destroyed, along with scenery and props for twelve ballets, plus orchestra scores for four. Total damage, mostly coveted by insurance: about...