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...educational TV stations across the U.S. watch her every move, forgive her every gaffe and, in a word, adore her. Manhattan matrons refuse to dine out the night she is on. When Washington, D.C.'s WETA interrupted her program to carry Lyndon Johnson live, the station's switchboard was jammed for an hour. Miami's WTHS-TV ran through 117 of her 134 taped shows (the earliest tapes have simply worn out), found demand was so great that the station is now running through the whole series a second time. So good is she that...
...played hostess at San Simeon to a list of greats that included Winston Churchill, Calvin Coolidge, Bill Tilden and Garbo, is rarely mentioned. Hearst's private study, the seat from which he directed his empire, and the radio shack equipped with a radio-control tower and a complete switchboard through which he transmitted his orders, attract only passing interest. What delights the curiosity seekers are the same things that enthralled the Chief...
...hover on the fringes of the select circle of U.S. pianists; he never quite won the measure of popular acclaim that went to others of his generation, such as Gary Graffman and Leon Fleisher. Last month, when he called his manager's Los Angeles office, a new switchboard operator asked curtly: "Who are you and what do you play?" It was typical of Lateiner that he was wryly amused rather than offended...
...Ethical Culture worries about losing its bite. Despite a steady growth of about 500 members per year, good new leaders have been hard to find. Many potential members, some society officials fear, may well be repelled by an antiquated name, suggestive of Victorian rationalism. In New York, society switchboard operators lately stopped answering calls with a cheerily cryptic "Hello, Ethical," after one caller snapped: "I don't give a damn about your morals; just connect...
...waiting room. The recessed lighting shines dimly on glass-framed award certificates, hung on the walls like diplomas. The silence is emphasized by the drone of voices from the massive color TV set, always on and tuned to WBZ-TV, and is broken occasionally by a buzz from the switchboard behind a high counter, followed by the receptionist's greeting, "WBZ, Group W." Instead of patients, middle-aged promotion men holding bundles of paper-jacketed 15's sit talking of the publicity job for an Al Hirt concert and about bringing the Four Seasons to Boston for the March...