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Show Private Holds That Line As Bride and Pals Cheer SAN DIEGO. Cat calls and heckling heck-ling from a long line of impatient soldiers, waiting to use a Camp Cal-lan Cal-lan pay telephone, turned into cheers for Private Robert P. Krone-witter. Krone-witter. He set a new high for army pay-as-you-go phone calls at the San Diego camp by talking for 21 minutes min-utes to South Bend, Ind. Kronewitter, a bridegroom of less than three months, was celebrating his wife's brithday by talking to her. Before he finished, he put 69 quarters quar-ters and three nickels in the slot. Said Kronewitter, emerging from the booth with a sweaty brow and a sublime expression: "It sure was worth it!" |