Excuse It, Please

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From Edmonton, capital of Canada's province of Alberta and gateway to the new 1,480-mile-long U.S.-constructed Alaska highway, a Canadian newsman sent a tall tale to the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The inspector general of the Canadian Army paid a visit to Edmonton, and, desiring to look over the American in stallations there, put in a telephone call to the U.S. Army headquarters. Plugging in . . . the telephone operator purred in the soft accent of an American telephone operator, 'United States Army of Occupation.' The Canadian inspector general . . . hit the ceiling. . . . The telephone girl was quietly transferred. . . . [Now] operators, plugging in calls . . . say: 'United States Army Headquarters in Canada.' "

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