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...days, the war spread to Bloomingdale's, Saks-34th and, to a limited extent, to dozens of other New York City stores. Customers lined up before big charts, where changes in prices were scrawled, as breathlessly as stock brokers watching a ticker tape in a collapsing market. Such items as Haspel summer suits opened at $32.50, started sliding a few dollars at a time, closed at $19.24 at week's end. James Jones's bestselling From Here to Eternity fell from $4.50 to $1.94; Waterman fountain pens were cut from $3.95 to $2.09; copper pans from...
...their whistles to the din. Then, lower Broadway -the financial district's Canyon of Heroes -began to resound to the clop of police horses, the crash of brass bands, as paraders moved out to lead MacArthur a mile; to City Hall. History's greatest fall of paper, ticker tape and torn telephone books (2,850 tons) cascaded down, filling the street ankle-deep. It fell so thickly for a time that it completely blurred thet lenses of television cameras...
Doubtful or not, De Kooning wallops into each canvas with a will, drawing lines that resemble streams of ticker tape on the wind, whipped free one instant, snarled the next, and punctuated with blobs and smears which break the canvas into arcs, tunnels, humps and skies of space. Weak in color, his paintings are always original and often elegant in composition. Like the finest Chinese brush drawings, they have an air of being dashed off, and they are. To give his work the spontaneous quality, De Kooning does it fast, destroys hundreds of failures...
...MacArthur from the time he arrives until he's down to his shorts in his hotel room." The television industry almost lived up to the threat. From the moment the Batoan touched U.S. soil at Hawaii's Hickam Field to the triumphal procession through Manhattan's ticker-tape blizzard five days later, TV kept its relentless eyes on General Douglas MacArthur...
...White House aide, leafing through a routine sheaf of wire copy from the news ticker, started with surprise. He had come across the report of Joe Martin's speech, made that afternoon in the House, containing General Douglas MacArthur's letter endorsing the employment of Chiang Kai-shek's troops to open a second front in China. The aide rushed in to the President's office. As he read, Harry Truman flushed with anger. As the White House leaked the story later, he made his decision then & there-Thursday, April 5-that Douglas MacArthur must...