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...Cutoff Point. The telephone rang. Chairman Cartwright answered. It was a customer making an inquiry. The board chairman was just framing an answer when the switchboard operator cut him off the line. Cartwright hung up and the telephone rang again. It was another customer. The switchboard operator's piping voice cut in to explain: "I can't get any answer from the sales department, Mr. Cartwright." Chairman Cartwright's overloaded temper burst forth to Managing Director Pethybridge, who started to agree: "Of course people must go out for cups of tea in the middle of the morning...
...like a man plugged in on a busy switchboard. Lights keep blinking and flashing in Hogan's brain, carrying danger signals from his nerves and muscles. When the switchboard is really busy-as it will be on April 3 when Hogan plays in the Masters Tournament at Augusta, Ga.-he deliberately shifts himself into a state in which people blend into the landscape like so many trees or blades of grass. Opponents actually believe that he has learned how to control his heartbeat and regulate the flow of juices from his thyroid and adrenal glands...
...hastily ordering batches of posters and campaign buttons. Hard-working Ikemen in Washington and Topeka spent hours on the phone straightening out enthusiastic amateurs who happened to have opened rival Ike clubs in the same town. In Los Angeles, the day after Ike's announcement last week, the switchboard of the county registrar's office was temporarily swamped with calls from prospective voters, asking how & when they could register...
...West, switchboard operators and Western Union men urgently summoned the President's staff, his airplane crew and the press. Reporters came running in off the beaches in wet swimming trunks, and dashed into the pressroom. Then came the announcement: Harry Truman had suddenly decided to cut short his vacation, and would fly back to Washington a week ahead of schedule "for a meeting ... of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and representatives of the State Department." The reporters immediately began to clamor: What's wrong? A crisis...
Climbing a flight of stairs and entering a barren room with dirty green walls, we found that things weren't so dead after all. A switchboard operator was busy directing the heavy traffic of telephone calls, and rough-looking men were pushing bales of "Curley, Courageous, Capable" posters from one back room to another. We asked one of the poster-pushers where we could find Curley's publicity director. After looking us over thoroughly, he pointed to a diminutive man in shirtsleeves and shouted "Callahan! These two guys want to see Smith." Callahan said Smith was on the telephone...