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...Atlantic with a parted rudder chain. Manning volunteered to take a lifeboat with seven men across a quarter-mile of raging, ice-strewn seas to rescue the Italian crew. The 32 men were saved. On his return to New York, he was given a hero's welcome, a ticker-tape parade and a banquet...
...cast got their due (two curtain calls). Then the audience stood as one man and gave Soprano Flagstad ten more. On the tenth, the Met's gold curtains parted behind her to reveal Met officials and the whole cast lined up on the stage, applauding. A ticker tape of torn programs flaked from the balconies; from boxes nearest the stage, fans threw roses at her feet...
...greeting when he sailed up the harbor on the Coast Guard cutter Sank. Half a million people cheered the skipper as he paraded up Broadway. "I just wanted to kiss him," a young girl hollered indignantly after chasing the skipper's car for eight blocks. From every window, ticker tape and confetti poured down, 75 tons of it. At a luncheon in his honor, Carlsen turned down a gold watch sent him by a wellwisher. Said he: "Please accept a simple seaman's simple thanks...
...cold comfort. Late that night, the headquarters in Transport House bore the unmistakable signs of defeat. Ticker tape littered the floor. Torn scribble sheets covered with outdated calculations were piled on desks. Campaign posters as anachronistic as Christmas cards in July hung sheepishly on the walls. A few party workers popped out fora beer, but most just slumped, sucking stale cigarettes over milky cups...
This week, with pledges in his pocket of U.S. financial aid for earthquake damage repair and for more Point Four help, President Plaza moved to New York to receive a ticker-tape welcome, meet such business leaders as the Grace Line's J. Peter Grace Jr. and Nelson Rockefeller, and visit the hotel where he was born 45 years ago, when his father was minister to Washington. From his birthplace, he will fly to California to visit his old university campus at Berkeley, then head southward for a brief state visit in Mexico City on his way home...