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Christopher Ortega and Ethan M. Ticker contributed to the reporting of this story...
...year was 1958, and the man of the hour was a rangy young pianist from Texas named Van Cliburn. As the winner of the first Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Cliburn was front-page news, the cultural vanquisher of the Red Menace; in New York City he was given a ticker-tape parade. At the age of 23, Cliburn found himself the most famous pianist since Paderewski, his very name synonymous with piano playing. His future as a major figure in American music seemed secure...
...around the network's New York City broadcast center on 57th Street by Howard Stringer, CBS's Broadcast Group president. Tisch said Stringer would stay on in the new regime. And Diller, who has often castigated the bigger networks as boring and bloated, promised that there would be no ticker-tape parade of pink slips...
...Goodyear blimp, the Times Square news ticker and baseball scoreboards will all be flashing the same message next week: the label has arrived. Television ads will be urging people to "check it out." In a campaign designed to echo through every supermarket, the U.S. government is touting the new, improved nutrition labels that as of May 8 must appear on most food products...
...what is called the "War Against Women" -- a war that is of course atrocious because women are . . . helpless? The War Against Men, on the other hand, is what men have coming to them, and high time. When women read about male bashing, the words give me a break ticker-tape across their foreheads...