Switchboard operator weeps as she admits sending 'crash team' to the wrong part of the hospital when grandfather, 65, collapsed after claiming she found radiographer's accent 'difficult' to understand ...

In Gretchen Berg’s debut novel, "The Operator," a gossip-hungry telephone switchboard operator in 1950s Ohio listens in on calls.(William Morrow) In Gretchen Berg’s debut novel, The Operator ...

Her family and friends understand. Blanchard is the switchboard operator for the district and she says, "Riverview Gardens School District. May I help you?" nearly 500 times a day.

Although employed to act as switchboard operator, Joan has since become proficient enough to take calls from Goodwill patrons who wish to make donations. For a blind person living in a seeing ...

People today would not know what a switchboard operator of yesteryear in cities like New York did to keep communication flowing in the early days of telephones. George Willard Croy became the ...

Switchboard operator at the communications HQ that oversaw the D Day landings, now 92, is handed France's highest honour for her heroic work as a 17-year-old ...