Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rudolf Bing was relaxing in his Manhattan hotel room before returning to London. He had just finished a business errand for Britain's crack opera company; Glyndebourne's U.S. debut at Princeton, N.J. had been set for autumn 1950, and Bing was well satisfied. Then his phone rang. His faintly accented "Hello" was answered by the mellow tenor tone of the Metropolitan Opera's Edward Johnson. Could Mr. Bing attend a performance as his guest? Rudi Bing said he would be delighted. Last week, operalovers the world over learned that Rudi had seen and heard more than...
Kaye, born in Brooklyn 36 years ago, is mobbed by adoring throngs. So many fans phone him at his Savoy suite that a special office had to be set up to handle some 52 calls an hour. His London appearance last year brought 70,000 fan letters in seven weeks; this year the total ran over 100,000. For those who cannot see the real Kaye, there is a wax model in Madame Tussaud's gallery of the great...
Harry Truman was looking for no such left-handed compliments. He was annoyed at Scott Lucas. "Why, oh why do they make statements when they go out of here?" he asked an aide plaintively. Truman got Lucas on the phone, brushed aside his explanations, and laid down the law. There would be no adjournment, Truman said, until his minimum program was passed. That included federal aid to education, housing and slum clearance and a 75/ minimum wage. He wanted at least a token civil-rights bill- either antilynching or anti-poll tax. Truman conceded that there was no chance this...
...orders and letters. I had to hire two stenographers to answer them. There were literally trunksful of letters inquiring about the ripper. The money sent to us in envelopes was amazing, but it was all sent back because we were not in production at the time. There were also phone calls and cables from Italy, South America, Japan, Alaska, Germany, and other countries. It was all the more exciting to us because my husband and I have been readers of TIME for many years...
When newspapers carried pictures of Michael's paroxysms, concerned Britons swamped the Hippisleys with hundreds of phone calls and letters offering home remedies, none of which worked...