Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the fiery little Mayor ran bookmakers out of Times Square, they simply moved across the Hudson River to New Jersey, kept their Manhattan phone numbers, hired special trunk lines so that their patrons could still call them for a nickel. Last week the Mayor finally got the telephone company to discontinue the lines. The only noticeable result, as noted by cynical New York Mirror Sportswriter Dan Parker: "Bookmakers' clerks . . . [have] writer's cramp from notifying their clients by mail every day what the new telephone number...
...water, vast, durable Kate Smith topped the shattering, 17-hour war-bond-selling grind of moderately vast Charles Laughton (TIME, Oct. 12) by three hours and $1,675,550. She sat down at a mike at Manhattan's WABC at 6 a.m., one minute later answered the first phone call from a bond-buyer, answered calls for the next 20 hours at the rate of two a minute. At 6 p.m. she complained of a sore neck, asked somebody to hit her. No one did. At 2 the following morning she had taken $1,977,450 worth of orders...
...host to a squad from Clark University. During the course of the game, a Clark halfback received a head injury which demanded immediate medical attention. No doctor was present at the game; the rub-down room at Dillon was locked; and the player was carted back-and-forth until phone calls finally brought an ambulance from Stillman. Only then did a doctor treat the injury...
When he was gone, the phone calls poured in at newspaper switchboards. Some of them were from wives whose husbands had arrived home three hours late from Willow Run. The newspapers had to plead ignorance, couldn't support the husband's alibis...
...first man to bag a Jap plane. He had studio telephone operators put through a call to a nurse named Rosella Nesgis, in Pearl Harbor. It seems that while nursing Sailor Van Keuren's wounds, Rosella had also read him his favorite comic strips. Hopping to the phone, he blurted happily to her: "I never look at Popeye without thinking...