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...phone began to ring. Between 7 p.m. and 11 it rang 100 times. The Senator took perhaps one call in ten, some times listening for a moment and then saying. "The Senator is not here." The doorbell began to ring. During the evening, some 20 or 30 people trooped in and out. They did not have appointments: most seemed to have no specific business. They came, as it were, out of the woodwork, as they always come to hover around a man of power. Some got the Senator in a corner and talked earnestly to him. Some wandered into...
...Bright and early on the Thursday morning that TIME'S Jan. 25 issue reached subscribers, the telephone rang in the office of Secretary Weeks. On the wire was an automobile salesman who had read the TIME report. The salesman, who was telephoning from
...singsong chant of an auctioneer rang through the gilded, tapestried halls of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace last week, sounding the end of one of the most expensive and generally useless collections of gimcrackery ever assembled. Like a royal pack rat, ex-King Farouk had cached everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale...
...gross of "ladies' undies." Fortified with "a few pints," Joyce took the underwear to the red-light district and hurled it into the bed of "the mistress of Sweeney the greengrocer . . . As he did so, his toe struck the night jar or 'chamber' and it rang musically." Gogarty and Joyce woke next morning lying side by side in a potato field, and the poet's first words, says Gogarty, were: "I have the title for my book of poems-Chamber Music...
Soprano Roberta Peters, 23, was just sitting down in the hairdresser's shop one morning last week when the phone rang...