AT&T Gets Last Laugh
Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
June
Year
1974
OCR Text
AT&T Gets Last Laugh
The telephone company is apparently striking it rich with its dial-a-joke service.
New York telephone pays comedians such as Henny Youngman $2500 to record a month’s worth of jokes. In the first month, 3.3 million people dialed in to hear the recorded one-liners – and A.T. & T. collected and extra $270,000 in phone bills.
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Article
Subjects
Freeing John Sinclair
Old News
Ann Arbor Sun