Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overdue or inaccurate expense account cleared up with less pain than any secretary in the country." Another veteran secretary is Mary McDowall Stoll, who has been with TIME'S Detroit bureau through the past 20 years. She first came to TIME in 1934 as an switchboard operator. Bureau Chief Fred Collins describes her as a person "who does a thousand chores, mostly of a monotonous type, with the relish of a youngster watching his first big-league baseball game." Mary agrees with the word "relish" but not "monotonous." Says she: "I like the diversity of subjects that we handle...
...switchboard at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital lit up after press reports that the hospital was testing a drug developed in Denmark that would cure peptic ulcers in ten days. The truth: no such cures can be proved, and Bellevue may not even get around to testing the drug, it seems so iffy...
...crumble. By 0400, the Communists locust-swarm over two of Huguette's five or six outposts. One 50-man suicide squad infiltrates the French center, gets within 200 yards of De Castries' command post before it is wiped out. De Castries calls out staff officers, cooks, orderlies, switchboard operators for the infantry fight. Reports sift out that De Castries has issued the order: "I expect all the troops to die at the positions assigned to them rather than retreat an inch." HQ denies it, but Dienbienphu surely teeters at death's edge. Then De Castries counterattacks...
...Record, the American, the Sunday Advertiser (total circ. 1,748,437); in Boston. In Chicago, Howey became city editor of the Tribune at 25, editor of the Hearst Her aid-Examiner ten years later. Ignoring events outside Chicago, Editor Howey concentrated on local mayhem and scandal, paid police-switchboard operators to tip him off on the latest crime, delighted in planting fake stories in opposition newspapers. In Boston, a mellowed top Hearst executive, he took time off to develop an automatic photoengraving machine (1931), a "soundphoto" system of transmitting photographs by wire...
...Service advance men had thoroughly cased Palm Springs for security. By the time he arrived, after a fast 9½-hour flight across the country, two transcontinental telephone circuits were in readiness, linking Ike's temporary office directly to the White House; the Signal Corps had installed a switchboard and Teletypes, and Government couriers were already arriving in Palm Springs, bringing official papers from Washington. Federal cops were everywhere, dressed in plain clothes, which in Southern California means slacks and flamboyant sports shirts (with shirttails out-to hide their revolvers...