Fiction Empire

Computers

Computer Products

EMERAC
Methods Engineer and efficiency expert Richard Sumner is the inventor of EMERAC - Electromagnetic MEmory and Research Arithmetical Calculator, nicknamed "Emmy," a powerful early generation computer referred to then as an "electronic brain". He is brought in to see how the library functions, and size it up for installation of one of his massive machines.

Federal Broadcasting Network

Cinema

TV Stations

Federal Broadcasting Network
Bunny Watson is in charge of the reference library at the Federal Broadcasting Network in Midtown Manhattan. The reference librarians are responsible for researching facts and answering questions for the general public on all manner of topics, great and small. Bunny has been romantically involved for seven years with rising network executive Mike Cutler, but with no marriage in sight.

Herald Tribune

Society for the Preservation of Eskimo C...

Periodicals

Newspaper Heralds

Herald Tribune
Newspaper. Mentioned.

Organizations

Nonprofit Organizations

Society for the Preservation of Eskimo Culture
Miss Costello in the Reference departments calls to find out about the tradition of rubbing noses.

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May 22

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Birth Dates

May 22
Bunny Watson: I did a little research on you. You were born in Columbus, Ohio on May the 22nd. That makes you a Gemini. You're a graduate of M.I.T. With a PhD in Science. You're a Phi Beta Kappa, although you don't wear your key, which means either that you're modest or that you lost it. You spent World War II in Greenland working on something so top secret that even I couldn't find out about it. You're one of the leading exponents of the electronic brain in this country and the inventor and patent holder of an electronic brain machine called EMRAC: the Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator. That's all I found out so far, but I only had half an hour.

OTHER

Bunny Watson

Bunny Watson
Bunny Watson: Just for kicks. You don't have to answer it if you don't want to. I mean, don't dwell on the question, but I warn you there's a trick in it: If six China men get off a train at Las Vegas, and two of them are found floating face down in a goldfish bowl, and the only thing they can find to identify them are two telephone numbers - one, Plaza Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh, and the other, Columbus Oh-1492 - what time did the train get to Palm Springs?

Bunny Watson

Bunny Watson
Bunny Watson: I've read every New York newspaper backward and forward for the past 15 years. I don't smoke, I only drink champagne when I'm lucky enough to get it, my hair is naturally natural, I live alone - and so do you.

Bunny Watson

Bunny Watson
Bunny Watson: I did a little research on you. You were born in Columbus, Ohio on May the 22nd. That makes you a Gemini. You're a graduate of M.I.T. With a PhD in Science. You're a Phi Beta Kappa, although you don't wear your key, which means either that you're modest or that you lost it. You spent World War II in Greenland working on something so top secret that even I couldn't find out about it. You're one of the leading exponents of the electronic brain in this country and the inventor and patent holder of an electronic brain machine called EMRAC: the Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator. That's all I found out so far, but I only had half an hour.

Cathy

Cathy
Cathy: I don't know exactly who he is. Some kind of a nut, I think. Or, somebody very important. Probably both.

Mike Cutler

Mike Cutler
Mike Cutler: Bye girls. Always a pleasure to see your freshly scrubbed, smiling faces. Remember our motto: Be on time, do your work, be down in the bar at 5:30.

Peg Costello

Peg Costello
Peg Costello: I could tell from the way he was lookin' at me that if I were any other kind of girl, it would've been the start of a beautiful romance.

Peg Costello

Peg Costello
Peg Costello: You go along thinking tomorrow something wonderful's gonna happen. You're not gonna be alone anymore. And then one day you realize it's all over. You're out of circulation. It all happened, and you didn't even know when it happened.

Richard Sumner