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Less formal gatherings of both Harvard and Yale men in the West will follow news-ticker accounts of the game at special joint meetings. Two years ago the halftime and final scores were cabled to the Harvard Club of London, but no such plans have been announced this year...
...come from Owosso to be with her son at his great moment) and aides Elliott Bell and Paul Lockwood, he settled himself in his suite with a pad of yellow scratch paper on his lap. He watched a television set, listened to the radio, scanned bulletins from a news ticker. Press Secretary Jim Hagerty proclaimed confidently: "We may be out of the trenches by midnight...
Shopping at the Keedoozle is not as complicated as it sounds. Customers inspect the wares, each item in a separate glass-enclosed case, then insert a key in a slot under the items they wish to buy. Electric impulses cause perforations to be cut in ticker tape attached to the face of the keys. The customers take the tape to the cashier, who inserts it in a translator machine. That sets off more electric impulses which not only start the goods sliding down a conveyor belt, but at the same time add up the bill...
...Fare. It was 4:33 when the police ticker tapped out the news. City rooms broke into a well-ordered uproar. Flagged by telephone, the reporters at Babe Ruth's hospital hustled over to the consulate in a taxicab. They almost missed their editions: all four had just been cleaned out in a poker game, and the cab driver refused to let them out until they had ransacked their pockets for enough nickels & dimes...
...start Mayor La Guardia gathered together 250 leading citizens as a reception committee. Down the harbor boats were beflagged and the sirens made their music. Overhead Ruth Nichols . . . roared in her plane scattering roses . . . Along Lower Broadway . . . [the street] was snowbound with ticker tape ... At the City Hall the proceedings were broadcast, and the vibrant voice of the new General, pleading and purposeful, claimed...