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...switchboard operator halted the elevators. A bellhop dashed out to the street, grabbed Policemen Schuck and Klika, who covered the club's exits. Schuck was near the service door when three bandits came charging down the stairs. He opened fire, they fired back; Schuck toppled over with a bullet in his leg. The gunmen scattered. One commandeered the car of Mrs. Samuel Solomon, who was on her way to a corset shop, lunged into Manhattan's heavy crosstown traffic. Klika, charging after him, jumped on the running board. Just as he did, the gunman...
From the hazards of embryonic life or the rough passage of birth, one out of some 1,000 children emerges with certain motor centres of his brain seriously damaged. If he matures, his central nervous system remains in an infantile state, like a telephone switchboard with crossed wires. Bombarded by sense impulses, he always gets the wrong number-brings the wrong muscles into play. Such children are victims of spastic paralysis. In walking, their toes scrape the ground, their legs cross in a scissors bend, and the touch of a finger may send them sprawling...
Tall city, worn city, switchboard weaving...
Many an odd task has been performed and much queer data has been excavated with the cooperation of the Lehman switchboard manipulators. The General University Information Office (located in University Hall basement and on the KIR 7600 exchange) has a complete file of professors' home addresses, open hours of dining halls, location of class meetings, and other minutiae of a modern educational community. Non-University questions are often answered by Widener. During the Penn Game weekend, operators managed to put through an emergency call from New Hampshire to a Sophomore in Philly--finally locating him after two hours of assiduous...
Their favorites, however, are the fantastic characters who have dialed the University number in the bleak stretch between two and seven in the morning. An elderly anti-vivisectionist, convinced that Harvard Medical School had stolen his Angora, tried to wheedle a confession of catnapping out of the switchboard workers. Weirder yet was the husky-voiced chap who, informed that no Biology professors were available at four-thirty A.M., startled a sleepy operator by inquiring, "Do you know of any one else, then, who would like to buy my body? I must get $10,000 at once...