Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics wrestled with themselves, and turned out estimates ranging from "considerable promise" to "at best, a good amateur." Most agreed that she had considerable courage. Margaret stayed close to her phone. Her mother called from the White House; her father from Florida. "Baby," said Harry Truman, "I'm glad it's over...
Offering listeners a record playing service for the cost of a phone call, WHCN will revive its Saturday afternoon request program, "Cocktail Matinee," this afternoon from 4:30 to 8 o'clock. The program, popular during the fall with post-football listeners, will be repeated as often as audience response warrants it, the Network announced yesterday...
...libretto, his 30-minute Telephone is little more than a trite gag. (An impatient lover tries to propose to his girl, is repeatedly interrupted when her phone rings; finally dashes to the corner drugstore, calls her up himself and makes the grade.) But the music is a briskly running satirical commentary that requires only a 13-piece orchestra to play it, and one soprano and one baritone to sing it. College and small-town music groups could tackle it easily-musically or financially...
...applications for permanent quarters for married students, and assignments to Harvardevens and the Hotel Brunswick should be referred to Hunneman and Company's Cambridge office at 1416 Massachusetts Avenue, which will be open Monday through Friday from 9 to 5 o'clock. Hunneman and Company may be reached by phone at KIRkland 8676 any time during these hours...
...phone rang in the oval study. It was Mary Jane Truman in Grandview, Mo. with distressing news. Old Mrs. Truman, the President's mother, had fallen from her bed the night before and broken her right...