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While they were still going strong, newsreels put many an unforgettable moment on film. During the 1929 crash, a bankrupt broker was shown plunging to his death from a Manhattan office building. Newsreel cameras recorded the assassination of Yugoslavia's King Alexander in Marseille in 1934, as well as the death of the assassin at the hands of a mob. The Normandy invasion was photographed in all its awesome spectacle and desperate tension. And then there was that time a newsreel man confronted John D. Rockefeller Sr. "Say something," said the newsman, grinding away. Said Rockefeller: "God bless Standard...
...general news service, which will be competing not only with the U.S. wire services but with the supplementary news services of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post as well. The financial wire is another matter. Reuters has signed up 100 clients, mostly brokers. Others have expressed interest. Wall Street is always greedy for news that will help make money, and Dow-Jones has grown a mite complacent over the years without any competition. "All Reuters needs is a couple of beats and it's made," says a Merrill Lynch broker. It is likely...
Britain's National Theater is a marriage broker of time: it can wed a present audience to a past play and make them live in timeless harmony. It is also an honor scroll of what makes a repertory group outstanding: fluid ensemble work, resourceful acting, thoughtful direction, intuitive dramatic taste, a sense of purpose and style, a firm guiding intelligence and a zestfulness of spirit. Currently making its first Western Hemisphere appearance with a Canadian tour, the troupe presents three classics from two centuries: Strindberg's Dance of Death and Georges Feydeau's A Flea...
...Idea Broker. Buckley is a gifted polemicist; a philosopher he is not. A friend of his and a fellow conservative, M. Stanton Evans, editor of the Indianapolis News, thinks he could be if he put his mind to it. "But he has left the metaphysics to others," says Evans. "He has concentrated instead on a high-level conservative journalism, acting as a broker and analyst of ideas rather than as an originator of them." Buckley is not interested in lingering long over any one idea. Rather, he tosses them out, shoots them down, then goes off to stalk others without...
...Securities dealers owe much of their livelihood to investor confidence built up by public disclosure of corporate earnings. Yet the overwhelming majority of them consider their own net incomes to be nobody else's business. This double standard is well entrenched, wholly legal and-at least from a broker's view point-eminently logical. After all, partly by resisting demands for more such data, Wall Street has so far fended off the Securities and Exchange Commission's four-year-old proposal for lower fees on big-lot stock trading, the most profitable kind...