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APhoto Of The Day — 3/26/09

ORG XMIT: CACCT101 **  CORRECTS CAMPUS RECORD NUMBER TO 24. LIFE MAGAZINE PHOTO OF 1959 HAD 22 STUDENTS IN PHONE BOOTH ** Inspired by a famous 50-year-old Life magazine photograph, Saint Mary's College students attempt to break the campus' 24 bodies in a phone booth record Wednesday, March 25, 2009 on their Moraga, Calif. campus.  The phone booth competition comes 50 years after Life magazine published a now-famous photograph of 22 St. Mary's students stuffed into a phone booth, a popular college stunt in the 1950s. Current students matched the number in the 1959 image, though they failed to break the campus record of 24 set in 1984. (AP Photo/Contra Costa Times, Karl Mondon) (Karl Mondon / The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: CACCT101 ** CORRECTS CAMPUS RECORD NUMBER TO 24. LIFE MAGAZINE PHOTO OF 1959 HAD 22 STUDENTS IN PHONE BOOTH ** Inspired by a famous 50-year-old Life magazine photograph, Saint Mary's College students attempt to break the campus' 24 bodies in a phone booth record Wednesday, March 25, 2009 on their Moraga, Calif. campus. The phone booth competition comes 50 years after Life magazine published a now-famous photograph of 22 St. Mary's students stuffed into a phone booth, a popular college stunt in the 1950s. Current students matched the number in the 1959 image, though they failed to break the campus record of 24 set in 1984. (AP Photo/Contra Costa Times, Karl Mondon) (Karl Mondon / The Spokesman-Review)

Inspired by a famous 50-year-old Life magazine photograph, Saint Mary's College students attempt to break the campus' 24 bodies in a phone booth record Wednesday on their Moraga, Calif. campus. The phone booth competition comes 50 years after Life magazine published a now-famous photograph of 22 St. Mary's students stuffed into a phone booth, a popular college stunt in the 1950s. Current students matched the number in the 1959 image, though they failed to break the campus record of 24 set in 1984. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Contra Costa Times, Karl Mondon)

Top Cutlines:

  • 1. The group came crashing out of the booth when number 23 made a desperate and ill-advised move for the coin return hoping to find some forgotten change. Yet another stark reminder of just how bad the economy is -- Poolman.
  • 2. First student: “Hey, is that Sarah's head jammed against the phone dial?” Second student: “I don't know, her face doesn't ring a bell” -- JohnA.
  • 3. The majority of Idaho Democrats gather in their convention hall for their presidential caucus -- OfCoffee.
  • HM: JeanieS


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