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BEA:
I heard you got tickets for
opening night of the new
musical.
BEAS CO-WORKER:
Yeah, weve got orchestra
seats in the center section.
BEA:
How did you manage that? I called the box
office one week after they went on sale, and
they were already sold out.
BEAS CO-WORKER:
Actually, my son found them for us on
the theater s Web si te and ordered
them over the Internet. Its fast, secure,
and all you have to pay is a service
charge above the price of admission.
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MAGAZINE ARTICLE
LONDON: COAT - HANGER SURGERY
(Reprinted from Time Magazine Vol. 145 No. 22,
from the section Talk of the Street.)
Woul d any doctors pl ease make themsel ves known to a
member of the crew? The summons was ai red over the
public address system of a British Air ways flight from Hong
Kong to London, after Bri ti sh passenger Paul a Di xon, 39,
compl ai ned of sever e pai n. Tol d t hat Di xon had been
i nvol ved i n a mot or cycl e acci dent on her way t o t he
ai r por t, fel l ow passengers Dr. Angus Wal l ace and Dr. Tom
Wong di agnosed a col l apsed l ungand embar ked on
emergency surger y. Using the airlines five-star brandy as a
di si nf ect ant, t he doct or s pushed one end of a ur i nar y
cat het er i nt o a bot t l e of Evi an wat er and, wi t h a pr obe
f ashi oned f r om a coat hanger, i nser t ed t he ot her end
i nto an i nci si on i n Di xon s chest. By rel easi ng ai r pressure
t hat had bui l t up i n her chest cavi t y, t he oper at i on
al l owed Di xon s i nj ur ed l ung t o r ei nf l at e. Wal l ace l at er
t ol d r epor t er s t hat he hel ped hi msel f t o t he r emai ni ng
brandy: I can tell you I needed it! Dixon was rushed to a
hospi tal after touchdown and rel eased three days l ater.