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...selection telephone girls are a fair cross section of America's bright young womanhood. American young womanhood by and large is made of pretty good stuff. Beyond that from her first tour at the switchboard the telephone girl finds herself gripped by a great tradition. The good name of a great public service is hers to guard and keep. When has she failed...
...last week, he suddenly clapped a hand to his side, fainted. Taken to the Polyclinic Hospital, he was operated on for appendicitis, gastric ulcers. Over the wires of the world buzzed the news. At the hospital door bushels of flowers arrived. Two extra operators were detailed to the telephone switchboard to answer calls concerning Mr. Valentino. (When a rumor that he was dead circulated, the calls came at the rate of 2,000 an hour.) A maid delivered an Irish linen bed spread and pillow case marked "Rudy" with a card from Jean Acker. (She was his first wife.) From...
...last a scrawled note was laid before the incessantly telephoning switchboard operators. One, Lucille Vanderbilt, broke down, sobbed into her instrument: "He's dead! Rudy's dead...
...another call and another, repeating to sleepy storekeepers and clerks and villagers what the voice had said: "The Reservoir has broken. A flood is coming." Before she got to H in the directory the flood was up to her knees; when she got through Z the switchboard was swamped, the walls were crumbling. She had her husband splice the toll line to a phone in the wall, talked to El Paso-"Send us help." Then the ceiling fell...
...automatic seems the only relief for telephone congestion in the great cities. Subscribers dial their wanted numbers. Automatically connection is made, if the called number is also an automatic. Otherwise the caller dials for a "manual" operator who plugs in on her switchboard. Changing over from "manual" to automatic service involves millions of intricacies, intricacies whch the Bell field forces handle with scarcely a pause or inconvenience to users...