Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Buckets Behind. Outraged advertisers occasionally phone in to protest such maltreatment of their product. They get nowhere. Gentile takes the calls in the studio and lets his listeners hear the argument. One sponsor who knows better is a clothier named Conn, who has used the program for eight years. Conn likes to recall that he was once a coal miner and came up the hard way. Gentile & Binge seldom let him forget it. They usually corrupt his program with: "Come on, Conn, you're four buckets behind." Sponsors may get mad, but most of them find that this...
...WAVES Long for Bids to Home--Those at Radcliffe Seek Hospitality Lifeline". This local press headline met the highly sympathetic eye of Mixer Co-Chairman Cadet Dick Powell one day earlier this week. Within the minute he was on the phone talking with Ensign Marie Gaertner, administrative officer of the Radcliffe WAVES; result, the scheduling of tomorrow evening's WAVE-Business School mixer to be given in Chase Hall from 8:30 to 11:30, Cadet Bob Byers and his 12-piece "Hot Rythm Stompers" wil create something like music for the occasion...
...penny, Lincoln or Indian, with salt or without, is only one-fifth of a nickel, no matter who your section man was in Ec A. And when unscrupulous people inject a penny into an unsuspecting pay phone, with salt or without (although the salt, experts will tell you, is indispensable) that means the stockholders, about a million of them in this case, are out $.04, or a net loss of return on investment of 80%. And you can't run a business with that kind of a loss, whether you've been retooled by the Busy School...
That's why the American Telephone and Telegraph Company sent a man around to Kirkland House the other day with an ultimatum. "One more salted penny," said he, "and we rip out every pay phone in the House." The Deacons still don't quite see why A. T. and T. should be worried about a measly $.04. And, after all, it isn't a plain penny. It's got salt...
...particular appeal of Alexander's show lies in the fact that he gets both complainants-husband v. wife, etc.-together at the microphone and lets them battle it out. About 2,500 worried people write him every week. Others telephone. Some phone regularly. One of these is a woman who calls up just to tell him to be a good boy and eat his spinach...