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...
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