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...Where are you calling from, sir...
...Please hold, sir." While I waited the phone played a computerized version of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to ease my wait. Boop, boop, boop, boop. Very soothing...
...auditions, repeats Arthur Godfrey's introduction on Talent Scouts ("Vickie Lynn ((her stage name then)) is a beautiful girl with mounds of auburn hair and two of everything she needs"), recalls the anti-Semitism of her husband's friends, and displays some heated ego in an exchange with Sir Rudolf Bing, who had prevented her appearance at the Metropolitan Opera. Bing: "Not every great singer can sing at the Met." Bubbles: "Not every great singer wants to." Nor can every great singer walk away from $7.5 million worth of bookings in order to retire, then take over a troubled opera...
...withering cross-examination, speaking in deceptively mild tones but homing in repeatedly on sticky issues. Secord rapidly lost his composure, once snapping at Liman, "Let's get off the subject!" in the voice of a general barking at a lieutenant. "You making the rulings?" Liman inquired mildly. "No, sir," replied Secord. "But I did not come here to be badgered...
Finally, we abandoned the phones and decided to give away money. "Excuse me sir, would you like some money?" we asked. Still no takers...