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Show What Happens When Business Men Confer This was a conference to end conferences. con-ferences. Calhered about the long table were 12 representative business men, 14 ash I rays, 12 pencils, 48 cigars und one telephone. The chairman briskly rapped for order. or-der. He slated the purpose of the meeting. He called for remarks. Silence did not follow. Members A, I! and C were engaged In small talk. Members D and E were playing over n Saturday golf game. Members F. fj and II whispered, followed by prolonged pro-longed laughter. Members I, J and 1C were calculating the effect of bridge on the human nervous system. Member Mem-ber L, ulorie, was brooding. No one, it seemed, bad heard the chairman. The telephone rang. The chairman was called. lie listened ' attentively for n moment. His reply was decisive, stern: "Tell 'em I'm In conference!" Kansas City Star. |