Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FROM The Hague, Israel Shenlker, TIME correspondent in the Benelux countries, reported early last summer that Russia's great violinist, David Oistrakh, might go on a Western tour, including the U.S. Asked to follow up the story, Shenker took a direct approach. "I picked up the phone," he said, "and asked the Dutch operator to get me Oistrakh, a violinist in Moscow...
Margaret sounded fine last week as she chatted with Playwright Thornton Wilder ("I adore Thornton Wilder") and Pianist Liberace ("extremely gracious"). The week before, when the show got off to a fast start, she had sounded just as good chatting by phone with Jimmy Durante. Margaret: "Thanks for calling, Jimmy. You're the most." Jimmy: "It's the least...
...anything for a free meal," Vag muttered as he glanced at his fingernails, cuffs, pocket flaps, and buttons. Then he strolled nonchalantly toward the girl behind the bell desk, announced his arrival, and suffered her appraisal in silence. "You have a caller," she proclaimed into the phone...
...Motor Co. (TIME, Nov. 14). To Funston, this was a "landmark in the history of the ownership" of American business. To brokers, it was the biggest stock pie they had ever seen ($400 million). And everyone seemed to want to buy a bite. Orders flooded in by mail and phone; thousands of people who had never ventured inside a broker's office got ready to shell out their savings at the magic name of Ford. Even the U.A.W.-C.I.O., which had flatly turned down an offer from Ford last May to permit members to buy stock at half price...
...grip on all university activities points up his fear of the students. Not only was the name of every student, professor, and administrator on file with the "Servicio de Enlance y Coordinacion," but this secret police organization kept complete dossiers on over 70,000 people connected with universities. Tapped phone calls, unsigned reports of conversations, lists of friends--all appeared in abundance to keep 48 full-time employees busy in a small three-story building. These offices are now shut down and carefully guarded, but Einaudi was permitted to look closely at the files...