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...painting is the work of our crash-cover champ, Artist Boris Chaliapin. He needed some swirling ticker tape to reproduce in the background, and so we sent downstairs to the Merrill Lynch office in our building for a few strands of cellulose acetate. The reply we got was typical of the impact of the week's news: "You can have all of it," said Broker Nicholas Bazarov...
...this week, for the regulation Washington round of banquets and Manhattan ticker-tape parade, is Ivory Coast's debonair President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, 56, an African nationalist whose credo is refreshingly different from the views of many other black African leaders. Colonialism, he believes, did much good in Africa, and the white man, as well as democracy, is essential to the continent's future. Said he as he got off the boat: "I am filled with emotion to arrive in this most solid democracy in the world...
...Manhattan, a city still impressed by the "king business," the Shah and his Empress Farah got the full treatment, including a ticker tape parade. The Empress was received backstage at Broadway's Camelot, visited the Guggenheim Muse um and the Museum of Modern Art. Diplomatically, she said that she "did not know much about modern art. But it is always very interesting for me to see and learn more...
...should say goodbye. Dead last week of a stroke at 75 was Grover Michael Aloysius Augustine Whalen, president of the 1939 New York World's Fair, chief greeter of the world's celebrities who came to New York during a pulsating quarter-century, inventor of the ticker-tape parade-the Host of New York...
...welcoming job led to another. When the Prince of Wales arrived in 1919, Whalen startled the world by ordering tons of confetti to be poured upon the parade from the windows over Lower Broadway, and from that day on, a Ticker-Tape Parade was deemed the only proper demonstration of affection for a conquering hero. Queen Marie of Rumania got it, and so did President Wilson, Gen eral Pershing, Bobby Jones, Connie Mack, Albert Einstein, Eisenhower, Truman, MacArthur. and scores and scores of others. All the while, under seven mayors, Whalen served the city without salary...