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...Ticker-Tape Triumph. Two years ago Roger left Bernay once more-bound, he said, for some great shooting matches in Chicago and New York. He returned with a lyric description of the ticker-tape reception accorded him on New York's lower Broadway. "Never," he said, "shall I forget that delirious welcome," and the applause that greeted the words in Bernay was deafening. After that, it was a cinch. On Sept. 15, 1954, officials announced that "for 25 years' activity in the field of sport," Roger Touchard had been named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
House he would not use the entire ten minutes that had been allotted him. The House applauded. Bailey uttered a last-gasp snarl: "I don't see how the President can really be very much concerned about it. The ticker just carried the word that he is going out to Burning Tree to play golf." Finally, the House voted on Dan Reed's motion to recommit. When the roll had been called, it seemed that the protectionists had won, 201 to 200. But Joe Martin, Indiana's Charles Halleck, and Les Arends had too many outstanding political...
...Last week, when the 45th returned to the U.S. from its latest overseas tour, 1,000 men marched from Manhattan's Bowling Green to City Hall, where General Matthew Ridgway, Mayor Robert Wagner, and a host of brass were waiting to welcome them home. Along Broadway the traditional ticker tape slithered down on the marching men-the first to return from Korea as a unit-and a crowd of 250,000 New Yorkers cheered them on their way. After the ceremonies, the men of the Thunderbird Division dispersed, some to other units, others to civilian life, and the 45th...
From the outside, the three blue-and-silver buses parked in front of the New York Stock Exchange this week looked like any other passenger buses. But inside, instead of seats, each had three offices filled with desks, radiotelephones, easy chairs, an outlet for a stock market ticker and a board listing 70 stocks. The buses bore the name Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, the world's largest brokerage house (113 offices), and they were the firm's latest idea on how to bring Wall Street to Main Street...
...repetitive radio and TV news. When Associated Press Reporter Richard Feehan met former President Truman, who was visiting in Manhattan, on his morning walk, Truman complained that he did not get enough news from radio coverage. Reporter Feehan took Truman over to the A.P. building to watch the news ticker. (Truman returned to his hotel with a sheaf of A.P. stories under...