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...Manhattan, Funnyman Jackie Gleason made a flying exit from his TV show. Carrying an electric fan and a bag of flour, Gleason stepped on a slippery spot left by dry ice, catapulted offstage and into the wings. While the CBS switchboard was lit up by calls from anxious fans, he was rushed to Doctors Hospital where examination revealed Gleason had suffered fractures of his right leg and ankle, would be out of action for "several weeks...
...Jacob Gruber, a New York lawyer representing a client under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, persuaded a switchboard operator in an SEC office to plug him in on calls to another SEC office. Sentence: a year and a day in prison, $1,000 fine. The operator drew a suspended sentence...
...figure, Miss Greece would eat nothing but oranges, spent a good part of the week sitting in her hotel room amid piles of peelings and half-eaten fruit. She sent down word that she had a cold, then every few minutes picked up the telephone to report to the switchboard, "I am very nearly better." Miss Norway repeatedly tried to sneak out of her hotel to have dates-a direct violation of the contest rules-but was foiled each time by guards stationed in the lobby. She stamped her sharp heels and railed against being treated like a schoolgirl. Miss...
...then," comparing it to the current police force. "They've had to take men off the beats for every thing you can imagine. The men checking the meters, the men repairing the meters, the men collecting from meters. They all came off the walks. All the new civilian personnel, switchboard operators, clerks, the motorized policemen, and the men who operate the radios all came off the beats. The detectives, the men on safety patrol, and the men working in the juvenile department all came off the walking beats. They need men to regulate traffic. Now I'm not saying that...
Armed Companions. After breakfast (half a grapefruit and coffee), Ike rode in a Secret Service-driven car to nearby Lowry Air Force Base, where operators on a special switchboard set up for the 18-man presidential staff were answering calls with a cheery "Denver White House. Here in a small, sparsely furnished room, whose only official trapping was the presidential flag, Ike pushed his way determinedly through the no bills he had brought with him from Washington, studying each bill carefully before he signed...