Why is that so? ''to ask them'' and not ''to ask him"
He was never impatient with the persons who call up the celebrated on the telephone at inconvenient moments to ask them for the information of newspaper readers whether they believe in God or what they eat for breakfast
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Hello Mehrdad!
This sentence doesn't make much sense to me but I am assuming that the writer or speaker is talking about fans that phone to ask the celebrities very random questions (out of curiosity), at inconvenient times.
The subject is one of a number of people that are celebrities at this place, who could possibly answer the phone and so the writer says ''to ask them'' - there are different people that could be answering the phone.
I hope that helps!
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Thank you very much.
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Paqui is correct.
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'Them' may refer to 'the celebrated', plural form (famous people)
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