Flurry in the Stock Exchange

A granite precedent was shattered, a male stronghold crumbled, and stock trading was enlivened last week when a woman went to work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for the first time in 150 years. She was good-looking, young (18), auburn-haired. But Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane -- the brokers she represented--guarded against too great a panic by garbing her plainly in a tannish gabardine uniform. Even so there was excitement, and will be more. For Helen Hanzelin, until three months ago a junior in Long Island City's Bryant High School, is only the first of more to come. From the Exchange and its member firms 3,600 male employes have gone into the armed forces.

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