Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Press, or from reporters on competing papers. Of the Sun's own 50-man editorial staff, only one reporter spotted the repetition. After the third day, the Sun confessed its trick. "If the paper omits a comic strip . . . football scores or the horse-racing handicap column, the office switchboard begins winking frantically . . . But the readers' reaction to seeing the same Korean war story three times was deafening silence...
...these monthly concerts, the mellowed brass of the B.S.O. play mostly to the privileged brass of the University, not to students. Faculty members, instructors, and mysterious "friends of the University" monopolize the seats, and for an undergraduate to get a subscription, he needs more connections than a switchboard...
...Western Steelworkers and their wives, reminisced in his soft Scottish burr, then departed, with a "Good night and God bless you." At 11:30, he and Mrs. Murray retired to their room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, leaving a call for 6:30 next morning. At 6:30, the switchboard rang and rang, but got no answer. A bellboy knocked, then opened the door with a pass key. Mrs. Murray (who is hard of hearing) was still asleep. Phil Murray lay crumpled on the floor between the twin beds, dead of a heart attack...
...family, he said, was poor: "To give you an idea, when we got a phone call at the corner candy store, we had to run upstairs to answer it." He did a couple of comedy skits and wound up with an emotional "Thank you, everybody, for everything." The CBS switchboard operators, with some amazement, reported one of the biggest responses to a single show they had ever had. The critics were kindly. Several prospective sponsors began pricing the show. Buttons, of course, was ecstatic...
...they hadn't been doing their best, and promised faithfully to work harder if their jobs were given back. A few miffed workers, mostly women in the office, took their wounded pride to other employment offices. "We girls naturally resent being told we are inefficient," said the delinquent switchboard operator stiffly. "We will do our jobs until our notice expires, then go. We shall be coldly polite." But the coolness was soon made up for by a gush of warm good wishes from other harassed businessmen applauding Cartwright's courage, and hundreds of paint workers seeking employment with...