Word: floormen
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...outdrew the conventions. Of course, networks have other motives. Conventions are their most conspicuous "public service"; they are also television's own Olympics, with their news departments' prestige at stake. Besides, there is the adrenaline of it: a fatiguing 12-hour day watching over his loyal floormen from a swivel-chaired aerie has to be as heady for Walter Cronkite as describing five blast-offs Into space. Yet all the feats of gadgetry, all the energetic floor work went largely to waste during last week's noisy and frequently mindless prime-time demonstrations...
...Francisco Exchange. Striking to Eastern visitors is the fact that San Francisco brokerage offices must open at 7 o'clock in the winter, 6 o'clock during the daylight saving period to receive New York quotations. And confusing is the fact that ''Floormen," the title usually reserved for members only, is used in San Francisco to designate "Customers' Men." Many of these "Floormen" also serve as alarm clocks, awakening customers at an appointed hour to give them tidings from New York. Just as the New York Stock Exchange is on Broad, not Wall Street...
...Leekley '27 and Kenneth Dorn '27, the Crimson quintet has a powerful offense which should cause trouble for Schilsgren and Krayeskie on the visitors' defense. Leekley, rangy left forward, scored seven times against Worcester Polytechnic Wednesday night. Dorn starred for Harvard in the game with the Clark University floormen, being the leading scorer in that contest...
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