Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the hands and ranchers crowded about the pay phone in the back of Dutch's grocery store. Dutch put in a call for General Patrick J. Hurley, in Santa Fe. Old' Billy spoke into the phone. "Hello? Is this Pat Hurley? Well, this is Bill." Bill was talking to his brother for the first time since...
...phone, Pat was cautious at first. He asked Bill to name the members of the family; living and dead. Billy did not miss one. Pat began to recognize the "Choctaw drawl." Why had he hidden out all these years? "Just a quirk," said Billy. What about the man in Mexico? "I left that raincoat in an El Paso restaurant in 1908," Billy explained...
...Over the phone one day last month came a call from a player on the Boston Bruins pro hockey team. Asked Tamer: "How are things going?" The player: "Don't worry about the game tonight. One of the players is sick and another's baby died and he won't be playing. I'm going to be the only one able to play well and I don't intend to do so good. Don't worry...
...Calls Went East. As soon as the player hung up, Tamer was on the phone to New York. The Detroit police noted that many of his long-distance "information" calls went east; presumably he was relaying the dope to Boss Costello, whose office sets the national odds on pro hockey games...
Army ROTC officials at Ghannon Hall reported they had been peppered with phone calls since the beginning of the "crisis" early this week...