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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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l of his great-grandsons have owned their own planes. Mrs. Coville also explained the impor-tance of sound in her grandfathers life.No man was ever more conscious of soundthan Graham Bell, she said. He workedbest at night, late at night, when all theworld was still. Noises of any kind dis-turbed his train of thought—even clocks.At one period, she recalled, the clock re-pairman came often. Then it was dis-covered that Grandfather had been goingaround in the wee small hours stoppingclocks because their noise bothered him. The committee in charge of arrange-ments for the celebration in Brantford wasmade up of members of the Charles Fleet-wood Sise Chapter, Telephone Pioneers,members of the Parks Board, and repre-sentatives of various local organizations.Representatives of the Bell System, in ad-dition to Canadian Government officialsand local residents, took part in the dedi-cation ceremonies. Twenty-Jive Years Ago in the Bell Telephone Quarterly:From Volume VII Number 4^ October^ 1928
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Service to the Nation in Peace and War An allegorical group of sculpture inbronze and marble has been put up in themain lobby of the Telephone and TelegraphBuilding, 195 Broadway, New York City,in a place which was designed for its re-ception when the building was erected.This group, which is the work of ChesterBeach, the noted sculptor, expresses theidea of the words inscribed on the base:Service to the Nation in Peace and War. The heroic central figure in bronze repre-sents Service, calling and sending forth thepower of the nation. Conceived as a greatdynamic force, Service stands before theflag, conscious of the vital epic romance,past and future, that is carried through theair. Behind the head of this figure arelines of uncoiling wire, and at the base,partly covered by the flag, a wreathed hel-met of the World War bespeaks the thought i88 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN of those who gave all in the service of their they speed along the wires. They encircle country. Above the bronze

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