Bill Nace, back in the Berkshires, saw his phone light up with a text message from Gordon.
"I got a call from Graham Rowntree [the England forwards coach who was part of the Lions backroom staff] in the morning and your heart kind of stops when you see your phone light up.
-- PAT WILLIAMS General manager, Chicago Bulls, 1969-73) When the team was on the road, you'd come back to your hotel late at night, and if your phone light was on, you knew that either there had been a death in the family or George was looking for you.
Here's one to a reporter: "When I woke up last night at 1 a.m., I realized that we did not talk about the day when your wireless device will be your garage door opener, your key, your TV remote, your home phone, car phone, office phone, light dimmer, tape recorder, video machine and Internet browser — all in one handheld device.
On a recent day in one of Cairo's sprawling slums, residents lit homes by weak cell phone light, unfazed by the sporadic blanket of darkness.
Being late at night it would be dark, so I'd quickly scan the room by phone light to spot an empty bed, then climb in as if it were mine.
