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...years I had been looking in vain for a worthy Democrat. Now my quest is ended. The silver-tongued Governor Frank Clement of Tennessee, in his keynote speech opening the Democratic Convention, came up with the greatest political slogan ever conceived by the mind of man, to wit: "The Democratic Party-dedicated to the greater glory...
...cliches among those gems of Clem's. I can only say that it will be a black day for these United States should they fall behind the other nations of the civilized world in the production of rockbound, palm-fringed, seagirt cliches. I point with pride to Governor Clement, whose speech was worthy of Cicero-Cicero...
...relentless camera magnified the trivia and underlined the fluffs, caught the convention's heights and hollows−;and its occasional signs of petulance and flippancy−Truman dressing down a reporter who was badgering him for an interview; Tennessee's Governor Clement hamming it up for photographers; Paul Butler boiling mad over CBS's failure to run a documentary film (see PRESS...
...been sharply slanted toward the Democratic side. It was CBS that, out of its own pocket, set up hourlong, closed-circuit telecasts last month so that Butler and Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall could give instructions to delegates to both conventions. CBS also made a kinescope of Keynoter Frank Clement rehearsing his big speech, and Stanton himself gave the Tennessee governor pointers on TV technique...
...wisecracking Sports Columnist Red Smith, who dealt with the convention like an athletic contest, sprinkled his copy with sports allusions and such gems as his description of Happy Chandler's campaign grin ("A hawg-jowl smile, meaty and succulent, with collard greens on the side"), Governor Frank Clement's coiffure ("He wears a small round part in his dark hair"), and political pundits ("sports experts with their shirttails tucked...