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Edward Engel is fast and thorough, likes to pace nervously while talking. He has no hobbies, no pretensions. The switchboard girls love him because he dials his own numbers, speaks at once to anyone who calls. Says he: "I hate to be kept waiting, so why should I keep anyone waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Cubbyhole | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...sketches, monographs, essays, fiction (appearing in more than a score of publications in the U. S. and England) ; young enough to be inquisitive; old enough to be acquisitive; adaptable; resourceful. Can boss or be bossed as the occasion demands; can type; can-with a little brushing up-operate a switchboard; with the key to the ignition, drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

About a third of the numbers on Harvard's private switchboard are in the names of women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRONG NAMES, NOT NUMBERS FEATURE LOCAL PHONE BOOK | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...scoreboard at the opposite end of the oval is operated by remote control from the public address both, where George Whiteside and A. J. Cassidy chalk up the score by punching buttons on an apparatus that is a cross between a typewriter and a telephone switchboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coordinated Efforts of Seven Men Are Needed For Working of Soldiers Field Speaker System | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

...White House was hammed. Another, about the home life of the Lunts, appeared to be about acrobats. A piece about the rich unionizing turned shrill. Throughout there were very knowing references to Bergdorf Goodman, Countess di Frasso, the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan's champagne country. Best touch: switchboard wires curling and writhing like snakes. Best performer: Comedienne Imogene Coca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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