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HE WAS AS UPSET as a state senator who--according to the Dry Run--was inspecting the alcoholic detox unit of a hospital when he remembered an important phone call he had forgotten to make. So he used the telephone in the ward. The call was routed through the hospital switchboard, and the girl who worked there was new at the job and kept cutting the senator off in mid-sentence. Finally, he roared at her, "Listen, madam, do you know who I am?"