Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening day, thousands of housewives dropped their after-lunch chores to play, and within ten minutes some 5,000 phone callers had deluged the station's specially installed phones to ask questions or cry "Bingo!" The exchange was so badly jammed that the New York Telephone Co. pleaded with the station to stop airing the phone numbers, but within the hour 35,000 more calls flooded in. Next day the station asked winners to send in their diagrams by mail. The prizes ranged from a $500 TV set to a tankful of fish...
Harold Stassen's future as presidential disarmament adviser had been behind him for weeks, but nonetheless he and President Eisenhower went warmly through the formalities of a Washington leave-taking last week. In a phone call to the President's retreat in Thomasville, Ga., Stassen told Ike that at long, long last he had decided to leave the Administration to run for governor of Pennsylvania.* Stassen followed up the call with a formal letter of resignation, received a genuinely warm reply: "In the important posts to which you have been assigned, I have been most appreciative of your...
Again and again the phone rang. Getty answered with a clear but tentative voice -as if he expected the call to bring him some annoyance. He spoke with a Swedish importer who wanted 20,000 tons of fuel oil a month from Getty's Middle East fields. He turned down an invitation to lunch. He took a call from a shipbuilder in Tokyo about details of a new Getty supertanker. Turning to a pile of cables, he read a report on his new, 18-in. Mideast pipeline, fired off an answer to a Turkish importer's request...
Montreal viewers were delighted, bombarded the station with scores of phone calls. Sample: "I've been watching that live commercial for months just waiting for something like that to happen. It was a rare moment." Perhaps too rare for Bergeron, who was worried about his sponsor. Said he: "I only hope the Coca-Cola people find it as funny...
...required reading for those who design, make or sell clothes for the American woman. Macy's alone takes 112 subscriptions. So influential is Women's Wear that a four-line story on a back page about a dress that is selling well will bring dozens of inquiring phone calls from retailers around the country. Women's Wear does its level best to wield its power impersonally, never disparages any style, and like the other Fairchild publications runs no editorials. The result is a paper that is as plain as gingham and just as reliable...