Word: gart
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Directing TIME'S 20 reporters was Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart. His principal command post was an advantageously placed row of seats and desks near the podium. Beside him sat his deputy and deskman extraordinary, Dick Duncan, amid a nexus of wires, phones and beepers with which he could dispatch one of TIME'S four floor reporters to cover a disturbance in the Ohio delegation or a fracas outside the hall...
...objective was to be on hand at the critical moments of decision," explains Gart. That involves an intimacy with political figures which may be months and years in the making. Senior Correspondent John Steele, who has attended no fewer than 14 conventions, and Simmons Fentress, veteran of four, used their vast expertise to report and analyze the differences between this and past political conclaves. Correspondent Bonnie Angelo kept in touch with the women's caucus. Hays Gorey, who had covered Hubert Humphrey all through his 1968 presidential campaign, was with the Senator during the credentials fight on the floor...
While the balloting for McGovern dragged on, Gart left his command post to contact some of his "old sources" on the convention floor. In this "new" convention, old sources were not as common as they used to be, but Gart was able to return with a secret "short list" of vice-presidential candidates: U.A.W.'s Leonard Woodcock, Senators Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut and Thomas Eagleton of Missouri. Promptly, a reporter and photographer were dispatched to cover each of these three vice-presidential possibilities. As a result, Correspondent John Stacks was at Ribicoffs side in his hotel suite when McGovern...
...While Gart directed his reportorial troops, Picture Editor John Durniak - assisted by Arnold Drapkin, Deborah Pierce and Alice George
...directing a small army of photographers. He had wangled a girl photographer, Sahm Doherty, onto the central stand, usually an exclusively male prerogative. By week's end, the Nation staff had returned to New York to assemble the convention section, and Gart and his correspondents had begun taking a short breather before Round 2: the Republican Convention in four weeks...