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...York Stock Exchange ticker rattled off a new quotation last week: "11 a.m. market down 1 cent, NYSE index 46.73 down 0.01." Thus, for the first time in its history and only after several years of on-and-off deliberation, the exchange issued its own index reflecting Big Board trends...
...generally known that Byrnes wished to step down. It was also known that whenever any opening appeared in the Administration, President Truman asked why General George Marshall wouldn't be a good man to fill it. So, when the AP ticker reported that Marshall had been called home from Nanking, Reston guessed that Brynes was quitting, and hinted as much in his stories. He also called Brynes and asked him. Byrnes hedged. Then Krock called. Byrnes wouldn't speak to him. Instead Brynes called the White House to say the Times was on to the story. Truman released it immediately...
...deadline, he often does not sit down at his typewriter until 4. Late one afternoon, when asked when he was going to start writing. Reston replied that he wasn't an intellectual and did not need to sit around thinking. He was waiting, he said, turning back to the ticker, to see what the news...
Then the Dow-Jones ticker carried a strategic and slightly curious G.M. announcement that all of its plants would resume normal operations this Monday, and the market-again overreacting-rallied 131 points in the final hour of trading, closing at 903. Actually, General Motors said only that its plants would work Monday but was obscure about whether they would work full weeks. Later, G.M. said that eight of its assemby plants, rather than the previously announced four, will skip between one day's and three days' work before the end of this month...
...order to propel his close-knit cast through a long, fragmentized narrative, Director Lumet has to bob around a good deal, ticker-taping a chatty alumnae newsletter across the screen like subtitles in a foreign movie, sometimes cutting from character to character as though he were taking an opinion poll. Linking political and social history to the girls' private affairs also creates momentary strain, since the audience cannot really profit much from learning that the German army has attacked Poland just after good ole Pokey (Mary-Robin Redd) delivers her second set of twins. Although The Group...