Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Pittsburgh was plastered with signs reading "Beat 'Em, Bucs," switchboard operators at grimy Forbes Field were greeting callers with "First-place Pirates!" and the solid old baseball town that had waited patiently for a winner since 1927 was running a virulent case of pennant fever. But Murtaugh just kept his Pirates playing percentage baseball, told newsmen to find stirring quotes elsewhere ("I'm no good at answering questions"), and declined to say a single word about the pennant. One frustrated reporter finally asked Murtaugh if he would admit Easter would fall on Sunday next year...
...into the lake"). Birthdays were always special celebrations, with ice cream from the hand freezer on the back stoop. Soon after her twelfth birthday, Maggie went to work on Saturdays at Green Brothers' for io/ an hour. As a high school girl, she often filled in as night switchboard operator at the local telephone company. One of her frequent callers, who usually wanted to know the correct time, was Skowhegan's first selectman ("He had the most fascinating voice...
...another 5? an hour in 1962 and 1963. Among the newcomers: workers in retail or service businesses with annual gross revenue of more than $1,000,000; employees of gas stations grossing $250,000 a year or more; transit workers, certain laundry workers and switchboard operators. Most controversial point in the bill: a clause extending wage floors in certain cases where employees only "affect" (rather than "engage in") interstate commerce. Senate conservatives say this is unconstitutional, would open the door to federal intervention in intrastate commerce...
Bells Are Ringing. A poor book and so-so score are rescued by lively Comden-Green lyrics and the extraordinary comic art of Judy Holliday, re-creating her Broadway role of the star-crossed, wire-crossed switchboard spinster...
Bells Are Ringing. A mediocre musical with a silly book is worth seeing only for the wonderfully talented Judy Holliday as the switchboard operator who hopes to plug in on a receptive party...