The Newspaper and the Cryptophone

The Third one is simple one below

3.The Newspaper:-

A boy found 2 sheets of a newspaper.

One sheet was numbered 1 - 2 - 71 - 72
the other was numbered 13 - 14 - ? - ?
The other two numbers in ? had been torn off. 

What were they ??

Orientation:-

i)If you have the habit of reading newspaper this is a simple one ,if not go and buy one to solve this puzzle.

The fourth is a bit tough

4.Cryptophone:-

Can you decipher the coded quotation below the dial? 
Each number represents one of the letters shown with it on the telephone dial. A
number does not necessarily represent the same letter each time.

Dial 0:-
Dial 1:-ABC
Dial 2:-DEF
Dial 3:-GHI
Dial 4:-JKL
Dial 5:-MNO
Dial 6:-PQR
Dial 7:-STU
Dial 8:-VWX
Dial 9:-YZ

Cipher text below:-

15 56735377 37 1 515 835 771677 1 165778562
679942 8373 1 25757135 625.

Orientation:-

i) Try to solve the smaller text first and see solving the remanining text makes sense

For example 

the first word 15 can be AN.

The third word is IS.

4th is A

5th is MAN

6th is WHO

8th is A

11th is WITH

12th is A

14th is PEN

ii)This puzzle can be found in the book "FIRST MENSA
PUZZLE BOOK" by Philip J Carter and Ken Russell

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