The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-16

OOhlk 0lotdliNt pAASCo aA Cli 10 steep as many think, especially not for those embroiled in big business deals or trouble. It costs five dol- lars to talk person to person, week days, to Seattle, Washington, from lower Manhattan isle; three thirty five for the same chat to New Or leans; two-fifteen to Louisbille; five dollars to San Francisco. You can call oyster Bay for thirty-five cents, which is cheaper than soda at Hicks 5th Ave.
 Not all celebrities have the magi- cal private homes. Even a quick perusual of the phone book will re- veal the addresses and numbers of sportswriter Grantland Rice, painter Marc Chagall. actress Francine Larrimore, dancers Nelle Fisher and Beatrice Kraft, pianist Rosalyn Tu- reck, prima donna Frieda Hempel, playwright Moss Hart, directress Margaret Webster, columnist Dor othey Kilgallen Gin her Pops name) [, singer Bernice Parks, and choreog- rapher Jerome Robbins. They don't care who gets Tn their hair.
 The 1,196 pages of Manhattan'S Red Book (the Classified, not so- cial listing of Indians who rate) range in listing from Accent Cor rection to Window Cleaning. Psy- chatrists are listed with physicians and surgeons. Psychologists, term with more spread, offers a variety of help from marriage bureaus and teachers of concentration to teach esr of hypnosis and personality problems. The Red Book is filled with press agents listed under Pub licity Service Bureaus where 142 out of thousands offer to answer your call. At least as many, with some duplicates, are listed under the tonier heading, Public Rela- tions CounSelors. Press agents like to believe they hobnob with news paper men; the public relations fel- lows like to believe newspaper men hobnob with them. Such airs!
 A bashful swain could send his loved one a message, if he wished, by telling her to combine three words. One Is found on page 329 of the Manhattan (Summer-Fall l945) book, first column, 39th name; the second on page 663, thrid col llmn, 37th name; the third on page l,192, second column, 39th name.
 The City of New York alone takes three pages of listings in the Man. haitian book.
 Ever examine 'The Spirit of Com- municatioin" on the Manhattan book closely? He has hot wire in one hand and three lightning bolts in the other, but like Superman, he isn't faxed. He is standing, ap- proximately, on the North Pole with the toes of his right foot approach ing Canada His wings are of auto- gyro breadth and his face is that of an American footabll player.
 The combined phone books of greater New York must be easily the longest book in the world. The grand total (excluding the classi- fieds) of Manhattan's 1902, Brook lyn's 776, the Bronx'S 442, Queens 578, and Staten Islands 102 pages looks like 3100 from here.
 Psychologists will tell you a man leaves his history behind him in public phone booths in the form of doodles. Maybe the rest of us can't read them-but the curlicues and hobgoblins even a Milquetoast can make sometimes rival Dali for kicks
 Some people-like busy head waiters-are notoriously short on the phone to everyone. Others - like insurance clerks-are always exceed ingly polite. But ask the man in the street. No one ever answers a phone who is as rude and sharp as the box office agent in a theater. He never says No; he says Naah!