ever widening screens, they take increasing pains to be 
     unapproachable in the flesh or phone. . . . Many big 
     names never answer up to their numbers; a service takes 
     every call, and only upon request, delivers the 
     accumulated messages. . . . “Don’t call us” could became 
     the real area code for Southern California.

      “All Alone by the Telephone” has come full circle. It will 
soon be the telephone that is “all alone, and feeling blue.”