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Farmers who strolled into a machinery exhibit at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines last week stopped and stared. Nestled between a shiny red cultivator and a new Ford tractor was a stock and grain brokerage office. A Trans-Lux projector flashed ticker tape reports from the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago's Board of Trade; two salesmen chalked up stock quotations and commodity prices on a big blackboard...
...York City gave Connie a ticker-tape ride up Broadway. At City Hall, Mayor William O'Dwyer handed him a certificate for "distinguished and exceptional public service." The guest of honor made a little speech thanking folks for turning out "to see the old man of baseball." Said Connie, whose A's are in fourth place but who opens spring training every season by assuring his players they can win the pennant: "I fully intend to manage the Athletics next year...
...fill. In the U.S. for a five-day flying visit, President Elpidio ("Pidi-ong") Quirino was met at National Airport by Harry Truman and a 21-gun salute. He spent a night at Blair House, addressed the House and Senate, whirled through Washington cocktail parties into a ticker-tape welcome in New York, where he lunched with Cardinal Spellman and picked up an honorary doctorate from Fordham. Said he of steaming Manhattan: "The weather ... is very poor...
...Bottom and peephole speakeasies. Specifically, Shirley May intended to swim the English Channel, and, if possible, to break the women's record of 14 hrs. 31 min. set by Gertrude ("Trudy") Ederle in 1926. Since Trudy did it (and won a shower of Manhattan's pre-depression ticker tape),* other women have occasionally tried to beat her time. Only last week a 31-year-old Dutch housewife, Mrs. Willi Croes van Rijsel, tackled the 21-mile stretch from France's Cap Gris Nez. Protected against the cold water by 25 lbs. of heavy grease, Mrs. van Rijsel...
...Final Flourish. The next day General Clay climbed nervously into an open convertible, sat himself on the top of the back seat and rolled slowly up Broadway to receive Manhattan's traditional hero's welcome-the cheers of 250,000, a bath of ticker tape and confetti and a key to the city from Mayor William O'Dwyer...