Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everything's All Right." That evening-as the doctor and his mistress later told the story-Marie-Claire Evenou complained of a toothache, and her husband affectionately suggested a sleeping pill to ease the pain. As soon as she was asleep, Dr. Evenou rang the phone in Simone's apartment twice. A moment later, his mistress stood beside him in her stocking feet. Dr. Evenou uncovered his wife's breast. "Strike here!" he said. Simone struck, and Marie-Claire woke in a shock. "Simone," she cried. "No. No." Dr. Evenou held her close in his arms. "There...
...ballplayers' parents were a little uneasy; their kids had not yet come home from the game. For a pair of twelve-year-old Little Leaguers, this was violating curfew with a vengeance. When a phone call to league headquarters brought word that the Allentown (Pa.) Jets were not even scheduled to play that evening, the parents began to worry for fair. Then the truants arrived in a taxi. The parents demanded an immediate explanation. In a town that takes its Little Leagues seriously (the Mountainville League that the Jets belong to has a total of 270 players...
...bright idea. Allen had started as a reporter on the Birmingham News, had later read with interest Strickland's detailed accounts of corruption in Phenix City. As far as he knew, Strickland's face was unknown in Jefferson Parish, and after a quick phone call to News Managing Editor Vincent Townsend, Allen borrowed Strickland for a couple of weeks...
Buying Blind. The decorators buy their hotel art with one eye on swatches of material and the other on the colors of the paintings. Some buy blind, simply phone their orders and leave the choice to Lowitz. Since the orders are often for hundreds of paintings at a time. Lowitz tries to keep an inventory of about 30,000 pictures, to suit all tastes, stacked in 17 locked vaults. The problem is not demand but supply. Says Lowitz: "It's harder to find good artists than good clients...
...Bible course, Bible verses to be memorized, and a Gospel of John. They also fill out a card with particulars of the inquirer's religious background, to be forwarded to an appropriate minister. Within 48 hours the counselors are supposed to follow up with a letter, a phone call or a visit. In most campaigns counselors are expected to nurture their charges until the minister takes over, but in New York this practice cannot be followed punctiliously. "Just too many people," says Counseling Director Lome Sanney. "But we'll do our best...