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...Board. In tracing their children, parents usually begin by contacting the Missing Persons Bureau and metropolitan newspapers, which, in recent months, have been running increasing numbers of pictures of runaways. More likely sources exist within the hippie communities themselves. In San Francisco, for example, the hippie-run, Haight-Ashbury Switchboard (3873575) not only helps hippies with information and advice about food, lodging and the draft, but also passes dozens of messages from distraught parents along the grapevine every day. Poignant parental pleas appear in the classified ads of underground newspapers, and major hippie hangouts sport bulletin boards crammed with personal...
...than Negro newspapers. "Madness of the first degree," said the Houston Forward Times. "The work of depraved minds who are too sick to know better." The Chicago Daily Defender has launched a contest for the best advice on how to "Keep a Cool Summer." Even the paper's switchboard operators are instructed to answer: "Keep a cool summer, hello...
Radio, too, is talking as well as rocking around the clock. For cheap entertainment, there's nothing like the hotline show. All it takes is a know-it-all at the mike, a big switchboard at the station, and listeners with telephones. People who used to have nothing more to do than Dial-a-Devotion, Dial-the-Weather, Dial-the-Time, Dial-the-News and Dial-a-Senator, can now Dial-the-Radio. New Yorkers will hold the phone for ages waiting to tell WNBC's Brad Crandall what jerks the other listeners are. There is a prestige...
Clenched Fists. In his 20s during the '30s, Bendiner managed to find work as a switchboard operator-errand boy-editorial assistant-reporter-managing editor for a variety of magazines, including New Masses and Nation. His account of life with the Old Left shows how wise the Communists were in denouncing him as an enemy of the people...
Sometimes the school is so unprepared for the unexpected gift that the donor almost gets away. In 1959, for example, Karl D. Umrath, a retired cash-register salesman, rang up the switchboard operator at St. Louis' Washington University one Saturday morning and told her that he wanted to give the university $1,000,000. Some-what dubious, the operator tried in vain to reach Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot, got no answers from several other officials. Umrath was just about to hang up when she finally connected him with the dean of the college of liberal arts. "I want...