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...hours last week, summer heat and the instinct for direct action, which is inherent in the female mind, raised the very old Ned with telephone service in Gulfport (pop. 22,659), Miss. When the temperature in the telephone company's big switchboard room got to 92°, the 69 young ladies on duty all got up and indignantly walked out. B. D. Northcutt, president of the local telephone union, who is negotiating with the company for air conditioning, hurried over and asked them to go back to work. They told him, in effect, to go jump in the river...
...General Electric demonstrated a one-man television station, designed for small cities where present TV stations (which require a minimum of three technicians) would be too expensive to operate. Key component of the station is a double-paneled switchboard which permits the operator to cut in films, slides, transcriptions, local or network telecasts as well as run the transmitter it self. Price: $82,000 to $180,000, depending on the power...
...Eared. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., telephone service in the state capitol was halted while fumigators got rid of the bedbugs in the main switchboard...
Some of Ike's staff members had to ask the Secret Service to lead the way to new offices. Others were temporarily stymied until the old civil-service retainers showed them how to order such basic items as pencils and paper clips. The usually efficient White House switchboard got calls mixed up. And one of Ike's personal secretaries, Wave Chief Yeoman Helen Weaver (who has 20 medals as a crack pistol shot), got lost for a while on an errand between the east and west wings of the White House...
...this one program on which nobody sings Silent Night." Most of the estimated 18 million viewers of This Is Show Business (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS-TV) were used to Panelist Kaufman's curmudgeon voice and comments. Many even agreed with him. But some disagreed violently. The CBS switchboard lit up with more than 200 phone calls protesting Kaufman's "irreligious remark." Next morning several hundred more complaints hit CBS and Sponsor American Tobacco Co. Even though Show Business had but three weeks to run before the sponsor replaced it with a comedy show, Kaufman was publicly fired...