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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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r 1948-49 issue. Between 1929, when Justin J. Murphybegan his telephone career with the NewYork Telephone Company, and 1945, whenhe transferred to the A. T. & T. Company,he had been business office representative,field sales supervisor, office manager, localmanager, and district manager—all in theManhattan-Bronx-Westchester Area. Hewas then for about six months in the Com-mercial Division of A. T. & T.s O. andE. Department, in the personnel section.Returning to the New York Company in1946, he was division manager successivelyin the M-B-W and Long Island Areas.Then, in 1951, he came back to O. & E.,where he is now sales and servicing engi-neer. He and the men reporting to himhave inspected 80 per cent of the largecamps, as well as many of the small instal-lations, of the kind he describes, and havetraveled between 75,000 and 100,000 milesin visiting them and the telephone compa-nies in whose territories they lie. Much of the information received from(Continued on page 27)
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Three Decades ok Publication A copy of the first issue of this quarterly periodical appears at the upper left iti thispicture. Its dress was modest gray a>ul black., aud it was dated April 1^22. A moreelaborate cover in gray and blue was standardized in October /p-?-/, and was succeededin fanuary IQ34 by one in two tones of blue. Quarterly became Magazine infanuarv rc)jfr^ and the current cover., using a different color scheme each time., wasadopted with the first issue in ig4j These changes in cover desig>i duriiig thirty yearssuggest the editorial changes which have taken place in the same period Three Decades of Publication The first number of the Bell Telephone Quarterly ap-peared In April 1922—just thirty years ago. In his Foreword to Volume I Number 1 (shown at theupper left on the opposite page), President Harry B. Thayerof the American Telephone and Telegraph Company character-ized the Bell Telephone System as a young, active, and progres-sive institution, continually

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