Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife interrupted me twice in my darkroom Saturday. Both interruptions were due to phone calls. As I walked with her sown the hall to the living room, I noticed her palor. The excess of flesh creeping beneath the clothes she wears. I imagined how her feet felt in her shoes. The call was from an associate agency. They think I'm on to something since. I'm not at the office on weekends anymore...
...author pick his characters out of phone books, turn plot construction over to his subconscious, then write an entire novel in eight days and hope to attain a respected literary reputation? (See THE WORLD, "A Happy 200th to Simenon...
...Sutton Place. Figuring "I'd rather not eat than cook myself," he sometimes makes breakfast out of toast and coffee carted down from the NBC commissary. Lunch generally comes in from a drugstore. From his office in New York, Brinkley still digs out stories and checks nuances by phone with his old Washington sources, which are, as ever, at the Cabinet and committee-chairman level. But his true vocation is news writing, and he is indisputably the best in television. CBS's Walter Cronkite edits the items he reads. Chet Huntley will write an item...
Spun-Sugar Story. The ho-hum atmosphere of the trial became almost surreal with the appearance for the defense of Dean Andrews, a pudgy little New Orleans lawyer. Andrews set off the Garrison investigation with a story that he got a phone call from one "Clay Bertrand" the day after Kennedy was shot, asking him to defend Oswald. Andrews had already switched his story so often that he had been convicted of lying to a grand jury. When Assistant D.A. James Alcock tried to pick apart points that helped the defense, Andrews retracted the rest of the tale, swallowing...
...York Telephone is waging what one official describes as "constant guerrilla warfare" to outguess the vandals and thieves. The company has begun to introduce stronger coin boxes and armored cables on pay phones. To reduce privacy, some telephone booths are gradually being replaced by open telephone stands in high-risk areas. Last month the company started sending out a "flying squad," whose 102 members patrol by foot, motor scooter, truck and station wagon to track down out-of-order coin phones. It used to take an average of four days to spot a broken phone; now the company claims that...