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When Queen Elizabeth II paid her first official visit to the U.S. in 1957, New York reporters spent warm hours trudging alongside her ticker-tape parade up Broadway. At one point, they were startled by the sight of an unexpected limousine in the procession. In side, cool and elegantly dressed, sat Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, covering the event in her regal fashion. Wiping the perspiration from her forehead, an exasperated woman reporter murmured: "There goes the Queen covering the Queen...
...Stork Club that General Douglas MacArthur was feted after his ticker-tape return from Korea, that Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier first revealed their engagement, and that Ernest Hemingway and Louis Untermeyer resorted to fisticuffs over some forgotten difference of literary opinion. For a quarter of a century, everyone who was not just an everyone dropped in. J. Edgar Hoover, Joan Crawford, Brenda Frazier, Rocky Marciano, Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, George Jean Nathan, Mary Martin, Tommy Manville, James Farley, Tallulah Bankhead, a freshman Congressman named Jack Kennedy-all came to be swept past the velvet rope...
...last May, stocks bobbed back and forth. They started the week on the upbeat, then turned lower, then higher, then lower again and finally came to rest at 930 - up only half a point for the week. At the height of trading, the exchange's high-speed ticker ran twelve minutes behind, but had it not been for this new, computerized equipment, the tape would have lagged by 90 minutes, and many an investor would have become frightened...
...bases its case on the point that Morgan Guaranty made its purchases largely before the Dow-Jones ticker moved the news at 10:55. But Lamont contends the news was hardly secret by that time. As Lament's lawyer argued: "A director is not required to await publication of information in one particular medium before he joins in dissemination...
...stepped away from the Manhattan board room of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. and phoned an officer of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., of which Lamont, 66, is retired vice chairman. The Texas Gulf board meeting had broken up, and Director Lamont advised the banker to watch the Dow-Jones ticker for good news about the company. Ever since, Lamont has been troubled by that phone call...