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...some 500 Taft delegates met in the Hilton Hotel ballroom for a preballot pep rally. Cried Taft lieutenant Paul Walter: "Are we going to stand firm?" Shouted the crowd: "Yes!" Everett Dirksen was on hand, too. "We are gathered here together to hold up each other's hands," said he, recalling how Moses needed two men to hold up his hands so that the Israelites could go on winning. "All hands to the wheel, Bob!" cried Dirksen, in the mixed metaphor of the year. "I am in your corner to the last ditch." Bob himself told the delegates that...
Everyone an Actor. But there was much that television missed. The camera failed to pick up such dramatic moments as Tom Dewey's walkout during Dirksen's nominating speech for Taft. At critical points in the proceedings it often seemed unsure where to look, fell back on meaningless long shots of the convention floor...
...votes: one Democrat-Nevada's Pat McCarran, and nine Republicans-Illinois' Dirksen, Idaho's Welker and Dworshak, Montana's Ecton, Indiana's Jenner, Missouri's Kem, Nevada's Malone, Wisconsin's McCarthy, North Dakota's Young...
...Georgia's George, Texas' Connally and Washington's Magnuson, Democrats; Washington's Cain, Illinois' Dirksen and Idaho's Welker, Republicans...
...dramatized radio newscasts. Filmed shots of Winston Churchill speaking in a blizzard of "Hear-hears" to a London Guildhall audience were expertly cut into live news reports from Washington. There was another filmed sequence of Presidential Candidate Robert Taft happily listening to a eulogistic speech by Senator Everett Dirksen, and some biting realism in a 15-minute documentary of a day in the life of Fox Co., 19th Regiment, 24th Division in Korea. Murrow's aim was to concentrate on soldiers' faces, and he accomplished it with shots of a regimental commander giving a welcoming lecture...