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Dialing the Life Line Centre brings aid of almost any kind. Switchboard operators can dispatch "trouble teams" in radio cars to answer the desperate pleas of alcoholics, unwed mothers and potential suicides. If a plea requires specialized help, Life Line can call upon a battery of professional men ranging from lawyers to psychologists to podiatrists. For cases that need follow-through, the organization can use the 14 homes, hospitals and hostels of Sydney's Central Methodist Mission, which Walker also heads. It even conducts group therapy for many of the disturbed people who come its way, although Walker...
...phone rang. Young Frank answered, then said: "You have the wrong room. This is 417." But the caller didn't have the wrong room. He had asked the switchboard operator for Frank Sinatra Jr., and Frank had inadvertently told him what he wanted to know...
About 60 callers complained to Channel 4's harried switchboard operator, beginning after the Marseillaise was suspiciously sung shortly after Peter Lorre's arrest. Channel 4 has not yet decided whether Sam will play it again in the near future...
...Pitts, 63, Hollywood's flibbertigibbet comedienne, a Kansas girl who was a rising tragedienne until the talkies came along and no one could take her quavering, squeaky voice seriously, then adroitly turned to hilarious roles, from the whimpering Western maid in Ruggles of Red Gap to the befuddled switchboard operator of the forthcoming It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...York. TIME staffers were assigned to meet the cover subjects on arrival in the city and to take care of their needs throughout the period they were in town. To ease transportation difficulties, a fleet of 150 limousines was put at the guests' disposal, and a central switchboard set up for their convenience answered queries ranging from the time of church services to the names of good hairdressers. The weekend began with the Regency Hotel reception and President Linen's outdoor party on Sunday in Greenwich. The Linen party was a breathtaking spectacle. Four yellow and white plastic...