Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small Habit. In Chicago, Mrs. Kate Poshwinchuk, well satisfied with the police work following her emergency phone call of a year ago, phoned again, was delivered of another baby...
...Catto is a native of Aberdeenshire, was educated at Peterhead Academy, and the provincial Rutherford College at Newcastle. At 16 he got his first job in a shipping office. He was at first refused. Wall telephones were the style then and sawed-off Catto couldn't answer the phone, which was part of his job. In true Alger-boy fashion he demonstrated by piling books on the floor, answered the first incoming call...
Most oldtime hearing gadgets were not only feeble but massive. Many would rather be deaf than use them. In the collection at the College of Physicians' Mutter Museum in Philadelphia there are such monstrosities as an Aurolese phone with a headpiece like a miniature airtight stove, a snakelike ear trumpet, with a scoop intake, the 1896 "London hearing dome" with grilled receiver. At the Philadelphia Society for Better Hearing is an 1894 "hearing fan" to collect sound and vibrate against the teeth. This makes the user look silly but is efficient because sound waves brought in contact with...
...Besides being vice president of Cullman Brothers Inc. which owns Benson & Hedges (Parliament, Virginia Rounds), he is vice chairman of the Port of New York Authority, president of Beekman Hospital, chairman of the Program Committee of the New York City Center. He writes hundreds of letters, makes hundreds of phone calls a day, never slowing up for a second. "He wants everything done yesterday," a Port Authority associate once said...
Some crack London correspondents only grudgingly admit that Fred Kuh is best in their craft; none will deny he is the hardest working. He never takes a day off. He has some 50 assorted sources he taps regularly by pedal work or phone. It has been said that the difference between a good reporter and a brilliant one is that the latter has known his sources more than 20 years. Kuh has been a correspondent in Europe most of 24 years. Says he: "At least one man I knew 24 years ago was then just above a male charwoman...