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Advancing toward the finish line, both Wehrwein and Predmore seemed to roll over and die. Wehrwein dropped back as the trio ascended the last hill before the tape, and Murphy glided right Predmore uncontested...
Floor traders cheered and threw ticker tape when the opening bell clanged at 10 a.m. 50 years to the day after that ring signalled the start of a decade-long depression...
...small flurry of ticker tape greeted the two-block-long line of demonstrators at one corner, and crowds lined Broadway five-deep to watch the parade...
...closed at 11 on Monday. On Tuesday someone-some say a messenger boy-suggested a bid of a dollar a share. Since there were no takers, he got a block of it. Reuben Thorson, 77, retired senior partner of Paine Webber, recalls, "The volume was so heavy that the tape was late by hours. We had no idea what the prices were...
...difficult to tell entirely whether Mailer or various tape recorders are to be congratulated for The Executioner's Song. Mailer seems to have undertaken the project mostly for money. He never met Gilmore but acquired an immense pile of tapes from a hustler named Larry Schiller, the entrepreneur who had earlier promoted deals involving Jack Ruby, Marilyn Monroe and Susan Atkins of the Manson gang. Mailer spent additional weeks interviewing Gilmore's family, his girlfriend Nicole Barrett, and surrounding bit players...