Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phone Calls...
...later Mrs. Cooper took the baby to Phoenix, Ariz., when Coop was going on location for the desert picture Beau Geste in the sandy wastes of Arizona's Buttercup Valley, 19 miles east of Yuma. In Phoenix the baby got sick. After working a while, Coop wanted to phone Phoenix about her, but the nearest phone was in Yuma and a wild sandstorm was blocking the wooden road that led out of the Valley to the State road. Coop knew he could hitchhike to Yuma if he could reach the State road. The cowboy reached it on a camel...
Band number three is a small colored combination playing at Johnny Wilson's somewhere on Tremont Street, if I remember rightly (better look it up in the phone book). The band is led by one Sherman Freeman, who plays alto and clarinet with a nice gutty tone, blending wonderfully with the completely undisciplined style of the rest of the band. It's pretty wild stuff, and you won't care for it if you expect to hear singing song titles and Tex Beneke whistling choruses, but if you feel like listening to five musicians who have the right idea about...
...ringing of a phone prevented the obtaining of additional disclosures concerning the revolution which is sure to hit the Crimson grid team next year...
...supper time two male operators replace the girls. Since Widener and the Information Office are closed, this pair of basement Hermes are duty-bound only to make connections and to provide such facts as are available in the University Guide and Crimson phone book. But, anxious to maintain John Harvard's reputation for omniscience, they often go beyond required performance. It's a dull night when at least one girl doesn't phone for the number of "Bill--I didn't catch his last name, but he had a crew cut and one front tooth missing. He was a divine...