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...their work space in the Exhibition Hall of Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, TIME reporters pecked urgently at typewriters from early till late last week, while wire-service tickers clicked, Teletypes clattered and telephones jangled. This was our communications center for the Democratic Convention. Before the week was out, a similar center went into operation in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins, to forward preliminary stories on the Republican Convention. From the two centers will flow some half million words to help our editors not only report but illuminate the news of the conventions...
Johnson's sudden move came when he appeared, bronzed and buoyant, before newsmen at a press conference at the Conrad Hilton. Asked almost unbelievingly if he was really a "serious" candidate, Johnson set pencils to scribbling furiously. If, said Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic delegates should decide "they would like me to be their standardbearer, I will do my duty." Johnson, the victim of a heart attack last summer, made it clear he thought his health was no handicap. Said he: "I have been putting in 15-and 16-hour days every day, including Saturday, during the last weeks...
...Royal Skyway suite of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, Adlai Stevenson and his lieutenants sat looking at the face of Harry Truman on their screen. When Truman said the Democrats should name the candidate with greatest experience in foreign affairs, Adlai grunted, reached for his pencil and pad, began taking notes. Fifty-five minutes later, Stevenson fought his way through a crush of humanity to his downstairs headquarters, paid strained but polite respects to Harry Truman, and said: "I expect to be the Democratic nominee...
...Chicago's Conrad Hilton hotel, downtown headquarters of the Democratic National Convention, long-stemmed models ankled through the lobby last week in brief bathing suits covered with 375 Pepsi-Cola caps. Coolers loaded with Pepsi were staked out on every important floor, but Coca-Cola coolers won a beachhead at candidates' headquarters and the convention hall. Schenley Industries, Inc.. restricted from dispensing its beverages, fell back on institutional messages ("Since 1933, Schenley Industries, Inc. has spent $200 million with U.S. farmers for grains...
After three months Miller purged his household of Conrad - but not before the Man Who Came to Dinner had worsened Miller's relations with his wife, urged stern discipline for Miller's daughter, plunged Miller into combat with his best friends, and got himself deported back to France...