Jun 19th, 2008 · One of the earliest phone books — published in New Haven, Conn., in 1878 — has sold at auction for $170. The slender volume included what would become the Yellow Pages, and some of the businesses that advertised then still exist ... including the Yale Daily News.
Jun 16th, 2008 · Somebody might pay tens of thousands of dollars at this week's auction of an 1878 phone book from New Haven, Conn. Recipients of the directory got the following instructions on how to use the phone: Begin calls by saying, "Hulloa!" Keep conversations to three minutes. Report anyone using profanity. And end the conversation by declaring, "That is All."
May 18th, 2006 · Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former mouthpiece for top-level Taliban, is now a student at Yale University. His presence at the New Haven, Conn., campus has touched off a firestorm of debate about the schoolÂ’s admissions policy and U.S. security policy.
Dec 13th, 2005 · The founder of a New Haven-based research-management training firm answers the question, "Does anybody get a Christmas bonus anymore?"
Oct 9th, 2004 · Ireland's Abbey Theatre performs its latest production of William Synge's Playboy of the Western World this weekend in New Haven. It's the start of a six-city U.S. tour, while in Dublin, ticket sales are down and layoffs loom for the Abbey staff. NPR's Lynn Neary reports.