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...night we'd tune the radio in to Bill Mazur, known to national audiences as the hockey telecaster - with a toupee and contact lenses - that bombed this past winter. Away games with Bill were the most fun. Mazur would sit with a noise record next to the AP wire ticker tape. It was the same cheering all the time; Mazur would just turn the volume up and down as the pitch came. But it was fun to guess what was going to be said by listening to how excited the di-da-dit on the ticker tape...
Today only about five to ten per cent of cable systems offer live programming of local origin. Most of this programming grew out of such simple fare as filling one or more empty channels with weather reports or ticker tape machines. Today live programming centers around events of local interest: newscasts, school activities, sports, political debates, public hearing, school board meetings, and children's programs...
...m.p.h. in 1935 in an aircraft of his own design. He was named the world's outstanding aviator for the year, and President Roosevelt later presented him with the Harmon Trophy. In 1938 he flew around the world in a record 91 hr. 14 min., was given a ticker-tape parade on Broadway that surpassed Lindbergh's. Hughes' big flop of World War II−a 200-ton, eight-engine plywood flying boat dubbed the "Spruce Goose," which was only 11 ft. 4 in. shorter than today's 747 superjet−led to a celebrated joust...
Callused hands gripped tiny U.S. flags. Weathered faces shone with sweat under the midday sun. For three hours, 100,000 members of New York's brawniest unions marched and shouted, milled and sang in a massive display of gleeful patriotism and muscular pride. Basking in the ticker-tape approval of cheering office workers crowding high windows in buildings many of DAVID BURNETT them had helped erect beam by beam and load by load, the hardhatted construction workers, teamsters and longshoremen rallied through the streets of Lower Manhattan in probably the biggest pro-Government rally since the Viet...
...were made up of hundreds of beefy construction workers in hardhats of plastic or metal, joined by longshoremen and blue-collar workers from a dozen other trades. Police kept the construction men well apart from spectators. Each time they marched in the financial district, the hardhats were showered with ticker tape, like national heroes...