Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyone in Hollywood, the explanation was superfluous. At 9:30 each weekday morning, every Hollywood press-agent who values his professional life dials Crestview 1-4222, the Beverly Hills home and office of Columnist Parsons. However long it takes, he clings to the phone like a limpet until he gets through to her, for he must show his good faith. If he doesn't, Louella may take Borgia vengeance...
Every day last week, one of the 60 Birmingham bigwigs sat in the Chamber of Commerce offices, interviewed dis charged service men, and reached for the phone. With manpower short in Birmingham, jobs were easy to find. But the Chamber of Commerce is looking ahead to the time when jobs may not be so plentiful, when the personal call from a business leader will get a service man a job he might otherwise miss. This virtue of the plan has already caught the eye of 35 other Chambers of Commerce. All are considering similar projects, are watching...
Much of Over Twenty-One is decidedly vin Gordonaire, but it is smoothly decanted. Skimpy scenes are saved by funny gags and shrewd "business." (When the Hollywood producer gets into a tantrum on the phone he stops, ceremoniously hands his secretary the receiver, snaps: "Hang up on him.") As Paula, Actress Gordon purrs, shrugs, grimaces, ladles out her syrup, squirts her poison with enormous verve. George S. Kaufman directs traffic with his expert eye for preventing the wrong kind of snarl and encouraging the right kind of collision...
...shuffled out of Manhattan's Hotel Irving to mail a bundle of 28 identical New Year's cards of his own making. Soon he shuffled back in, went up to his room. Few minutes later, his switchboard light blinked red; but there was no answer on his phone. The desk clerk and a resident doctor found him face down, unconscious, across his bed. Half an hour later, Art Young, one of the great U.S. cartoonists, was dead...
Animal Kingdom. At Snake River, Wash., one of four mules which were loaded with firewood and hopefully re leased in the direction of Jack Titus's ranch, eventually turned up with two tele phone poles and 1,320 feet of wire. In But ler, 111., Earl and Roy Kinsella, Bob How ard and Harry Klepper went out coon hunting with a hound which at length got bored with the lack of game, treed all four hunters, and kept them perched aloft until dawn. In Farragut, Idaho, a pet deer named Bambi went right on chewing tobacco...