Word: switchboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks," sighed Jackie, "but he can't possibly mean more than two." Hardly had she spoken when the fence people moved in to build a high wooden fence around the open Kennedy property to keep out the crowds, and the telephone men arrived to install a special switchboard-connected to another in Hyannis, where some 30 correspondents and nine Kennedy staffers would take up residence during Jack's vacation...
...single question kept buzzing into the switchboard at Cutey: "How did this happen?" Confesses the station's vice president, Richard Jones: "We've got to make money." Staggering toward the red, WQTE had settled for feet of Clay in order "to get the kids back." To keep their man out of stir, the station rigidly selects the records he plays; meanwhile, Sweet Little Tom is delivering the kids with inscrutable magic, personally answering all fan mail, writing with white ink on black paper...
Bells Are Ringing. A mediocre musical with a silly book is worth seeing only for the wonderfully talented Judy Holliday as the switchboard operator who hates her lonely private line, hopes to plug in on a receptive party...
...fashioned for a single purpose that professional politicians fairly mopped their brows and goggled at what they saw. Said Illinois' old political pro Jake Arvey (who could scarcely cling any longer to Adlai Stevenson's star) : "Kennedy's got this country laid out like one big switchboard. He knows what's going on in every state, in every local issue. He's tough and decisive and determined. I marvel at his organizational ability. Openmouthed wonderment was precisely what the pilot of the bandwagon wanted, for the time was at hand to convince the bosses...
Judy plays a switchboard spinster who works for an outfit called Susanswerphone and lives by listening in-and sometimes horning in-on the lives of the company's clients. When destiny turns a deaf ear, Judy listens to the troubles (and the tunes) of a desperate dentist who aspires to be a songwriter and composes ("I love your sunny teeth") on his air hose. But she bestows her most tender loving care on "Plaza oh double four double three (Dean Martin), a playboy playwright. Operator Holliday eventually makes a person-to-person connection, and after several sorts of trouble...