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Like the heirs of a bankrupt corporation, Democratic politicos ploughed through the books last week, trying to find out what had gone wrong. They had expected a slump. But few of them had anticipated the size of the crash. Its causes were still as tangled as discarded ticker tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Low Grade Organism | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Whitman designed her bright colors in elaborate motifs, gave each motif a name. Examples: a yellow ticker tape tangled with prancing red devils, called "Ticker Tape"; a naked urchin facing a dark-green background of cactus, called "Cactus Also Needs Water." (There are also a few less discreet themes which have to be kept under the vest in polite company.) For snob appeal, Mrs. Whitman printed only 30 dozen of each design, with her crested monogram on each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neck-Lace | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Harvard Club in London at the half, and after the game with the final results. And finally, for graduates all over the nation, especially in major cities in the Mid-West and on the Pacific Coast, joint meetings of Harvard-Yale alumni organizations will follow the game by news-ticker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 28 Cross-Country Radio Stations Reach Far Rooters, WHDH Local | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...Tune. Some of the world's Assemblymen had come to Manhattan last week half expecting the dizzy glories of ticker tape and drum majorettes. But the New York of the Fitful Forties received them soberly, gave them a welcome of cautious hope. The mood of the delegates exactly fitted this welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Calculated Conciliation | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...little later the news ticker chattered out a story from nearby Frederick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Weekend Mystery | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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