Frank Osborne

Frank Osborne was the mayor of Alameda, California. He was the recipient of the first phone call to use the direct distance dialing telephone facility in 1951 dialed by Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey.

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    “I do wish you’d stop reading my mind.... It’s so frightfully disconcerting—like being followed up one’s trousers.”
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