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...four secretaries threatened to quit, complaining of the scatological remarks coming over the wires. One vice president, trying to persuade an irate California stockholder that the merger would prove beneficial in the long run, got the reply: "Sonny, I'm 84 years old, and I ain't waitin' around for the long run." Kennecott stock sells for about $22 a share, or $20 below book value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kennecott and the White Knights | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...also broadcasts warnings, mostly phoned in by truckers, about collisions, closed highways, bad road conditions, and speed traps (like the one that long flourished, ironically, in Ludowici). The show logs 4,500 calls a month, nearly 85% of them long distance. Some request music. The most popular tune is Waitin' at the End of Your Run, which is usually requested not by truckers but by their wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Road Gang | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...hang out at 14 Plympton St. in a glassed-in cubicle. There'll be hooch and pretzels to loosen your tongue and lots of open ears to hear what you have to say. Drop on by around 7:30 p.m. tonight. We'll be waitin' and don't be late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Are These Men Having an Affair? | 2/22/1973 | See Source »

Died. L. Wolf Gilbert, 83, composer of Ramona, The Peanut Vendor, Green Eyes, Lily of the Valley, Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee and dozens more; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 27, 1970 | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

Have you been "Waitin' in School" for an oldies quiz? Well, this is an oldies quiz, and all 53 questions, including the bonus, have answers. The answers will be published in Tuesday's CRIMSON...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: This Is the Last Oldies Quiz of the Year | 5/22/1970 | See Source »

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