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Typical of these stubborn independents is the Moore Telephone System of Caro, Mich. (pop. 2,554). Its 1,500 subscribers, scattered through three farming counties of the sparse Thumb District, pay $2.50 a month for a twelve-party country line, $3.75 monthly for unlimited service in town. For a $5 fee the company will call all of its subscribers, give them any merchant's sales talk. Its 15 "centrals" are pals with their customers, keep them in touch with local gossip. Subscribers grouse at the service and complain that the *Of the rest, 79% are Bell, some 3% mutual...
Phoneman Moore wears a red toupee, neither smokes nor drinks. Despite the fact that he has scores of friends and once belonged to every available lodge, club and fraternity in the Thumb District, he thinks he is antisocial. Says he: "I am no company for man or beast...
...government considered Browder a criminal, why did they dig up a charge of passport violation--a charge which is almost a stranger to the courts of law? The question, though a moral one, stands out like a sore thumb. To prove that Browder was treated like any other American citizen, the government will now have to convict all the evaders of passport laws--and there are plenty. It cannot let other offenders pass unnoticed, and still claim that Browder was not a marked...
...concerned, life was virtually nothing but work, harder, always, than his body was yet capable of. He suffered also under a strong, sadistic elder brother, Harvey. Among other misfortunes he: fell into a well, was buried under a gravel slide, got one foot frozen, had the end of his thumb sliced by Harvey (deliberate torture), got his jaw knocked half in two by an ax (Harvey again, an accident, no apology). Occasionally a cowboy stopped for a few days - most of them left lice -or a river baptism relieved the monotony: "As the women waded into the river, gasping with...
...audience never hears. Engineer Charles C. Grey has a control panel at his fingertips; Production Man Herbert Liversidge hardly lifts his eyes from an edited, last-minute score. Liversidge reads the score some six bars ahead, keeps Grey posted with hand signals on who or what is coming-a thumb-forefinger circle for female soloists, a single, raised finger for men; two for duets, all five for choruses, a clinched fist for the whole works. Grey watches the signals, ready to take squeals out of coloraturas, distortion out of tenors, ear-splits out of ensembles...