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...memorize it. I just dial 'Mugwump' and it comes at once. Ravenswood 8-7243 Is 'Sausage.' Columbus 5-0639 is too much to carry in the mind at one time, so I dial 'Boloney' and get it swiftly. . . . My only regret is I cannot do anything better than 'Plesido' with my own number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Trouble with Editor Nicholls's scheme was that numbers with "i" or "o" in them lie out of the dial alphabet. And only a few people could translate their numbers into anything even as memorable as "Plesido." For example, best that Owen D. Young could get out of his Butterfield 8-2765 would be AV U A ROK? George Fisher Baker Jr.'s Atwater 9-2360 makes nothing better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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