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...leaving home. One girl friend, Foxx assures the boy, would end up like her mother, "King Kong in bloomers." He is constantly complaining about his nonexistent heart ailment. "What if I have a heart attack and have to call the doctor?" he asks. "You know I can't dial the phone with my arthritis...
...Dial M for Murder, Hitchcock's improvement on Agatha Christie. Quincy House Dining Hall...
McGuire said the 495 and 498 exchanges lost their dial tone completely for five minutes at 2:25 p.m., and that for the next 25 minutes "people were getting intermittent service." McGuire said the two exchanges were fully restored...
When the Bell System began installing pushbutton phones a few years ago, it had great expectations. The new phones would enable users to make faster connections than the old dial variety. What Ma Bell did not anticipate, however, was that the pushbutton phone would become America's newest musical instrument...
...process is at its best in giving the illusion of depth to a composition. One recalls that several more serious films (Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder was one) were made in 3-D but released flat when studios discovered that the craze was dying down after audience complaints of headaches from imperfect projection. These days the process is used only for an occasional exploitation item like The Stewardesses. Too bad. Besides supplying some nostalgic shudders, House of Wax fleetingly suggests that in the right hands, 3-D could have been a good deal more than a stunt...