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158 Telephone Numbers
them to dial his name, R. Himber. Somehow, he managed
to obtain an exchange for his telephone that begins with
the letters, RH. The rest of the number is 4-6237, which
you get when you dial i-m-b-e-r. Now, don't you all dial
it just to see if this is true—take my word for it, it is!
This, of course, solved everybody's problem when it came
to remembering Mr. Himber's telephone number (if they
remembered his name) but unfortunately, we can't all have
numbers like this. No, you'll just have to learn to remember
phone numbers, and the telephone operators will love you
for it.
Telephone numbers in New York and most major cities
consist of an exchange name, an exchange number, and four
trunk line numbers. i.e.—Columbus 5-6695. By making a
ridiculous association of two or three words or items, you
can memorize any telephone number; and by adding one
thought to your association, you can remember to whom
the phone number belongs.
Most telephones in use today are dial phones, so all
that is necessary to remember is the first two letters of the
exchange name; since that is all we have to dial. These two
letters are all we will consider. Now then, the first thing
you have to learn, is to form one word which will imme-
diately help you recall both the first two letters of the
exchange name and the exchange number. The word, of
course, should be one that can be pictured easily. The num-
ber CO 5-6695 can serve as an example. How can we find
one word to represent CO 5? Simple! The word must begin
with the letters, "co," and the very next consonant sound
in the word must be the sound that represents the exchange
number according to our phonetic alphabet. In this case,
it is the "1" sound, representing #5.
Any word that can be pictured will do, no matter which
sounds follow the "1" sound; because those will be disre-