Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reports filtering into the CRIMSON last night that the Athletic Committee was meeting were confirmed when Associate Dean Watson, secretary to the Committee, walked in at 11:15 to announce that "an important release" was in the offing for Monday. Phone calls to the homes of members of the group earlier in the evening had established that all were out "at meetings or consultations" and could not be reached under any circumstances...
...phone rang in the Chicago Symphony's office, and a familiar voice spoke all-too-familiar words: "Dr. Rodzinski cannot conduct rehearsal today." Assistant Conductor Tauno Hannikainen was hurriedly called in. He had just 24 hours to rehearse with the soloist (Pianist Myra Hess) and to start learning Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Several hours later, the phone rang again; once again it was Mrs. Rodzinski on the line: "Dr. Rodzinski is better; he will conduct the Shostakovich; Hannikainen can conduct the rest." But the orchestra's trustees had already heard enough. Midway through the concert next...
Smooth Sailing. In its campaign to win customers and influence other railroads, Chesapeake & Ohio announced another innovation: for only a 5? phone call, customers all along the line will be connected with the main reservation bureau in Huntington, W.Va., will thus be able to get space without the usual delay...
...course, would have to have an air of freshman-like innocence and a convincingly slight knowledge of nineteenth-century European history, so I set to work at once. The letter which Cramer had sent to a College club was necessarily vague, so the first stop was to phone the number on the letterhead for further information...
Dogged. In Kelso, Wash., Mrs. R. K. Chess advertised, her two dogs for sale, gave her phone number, got no calls at all, finally discovered that the dogs had chewed away the phone connection...