Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon Mrs. Knight was on the phone, wanting to know why New York wanted to talk to her husband, who had gone to his job at the Bell Furniture Co. The Bell store manager wanted to know the same thing before summoning Knight. After satisfying Knight's curiosity as to how TIME happened to hear of him, he announced that the Stoddard King verse was in his scrapbook at home. He thought he had clipped it originally from the Spokane Daily Chronicle...
...this time the copy desk was not even speaking to Miss Sulzberger. She got the Chronicle's managing editor Harold Cassill on the phone and he promised to do his best. Early Monday night he called back on a three-way hookup so that Spokesman-Review Editor Glendinning, who was on hand, could talk, too. Yes, they had found the printed verse and it was King's, all right. They had persuaded Jack Knight to get his scrapbook and bring it to the Chronicle office. The clipping was carefully removed and the reverse side showed that...
...heroic tenor, fought heroically through a blizzard to sing in Bloomington, Ind., but it was no use. He tried to fly from Chicago, but the planes were grounded. So he set out by auto. An hour later he was stuck in a snowdrift. Bloomington presently heard from him by phone, too late. He had discovered that he was fighting his way toward Bloomington, Ill., 160 miles away from Indiana's Bloomington...
...streets, much like happy tourists in any country. A special ticket agency secured them the best seats at the ballet, opera and circus. Limousines were made available. When the Newark Evening News's Henry Suydam had eye trouble, two Russian women doctors attended him. Next morning came a phone call: "How is your feeling...
...narrow-eyed, young Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge, the "Pretender." Hummon looked dignified in a grey chalk-stripe suit and red tie, but when he heard the news he blurted: "What judges voted against me?" When the reporter shrugged, Hummon told his secretary to find out. Then he picked up the phone and snapped: "Get me Mrs. Talmadge...