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...Republican platform. A buzz of conversation rose from the convention floor, and the aisles were filled with milling delegates. Permanent Chairman Joe Martin, accustomed to a high degree of buzz-buzz while platforms are being read, decided that this was too much. He whacked down his big wooden gavel and shouted: "The convention will please come to order. This is an important document . . . The delegates should at least know what they're going to vote on in a few minutes...
...George Gabrielson's troubled term as chairman of the Republican National Committee expired with the last rap of the convention gavel last week. Next morning the new national committee met for the first time, dispatched a subcommittee to get Candidate Ike Eisenhower's ideas on Gabrielson's successor. When Ike had given his views and specified a Midwesterner, the committee chose Michigan's national committeeman, Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield...
...show up more sharply on TV). The face of Abraham Lincoln looked down earnestly on the delegates. An hour behind schedule, pudgy National Chairman Guy Gabrielson advanced to the rostrum, which jutted, like the bridge of an ocean liner, above the floor. "O.K., boys," he said, and banged the gavel...
Rule & Custom. If the Ikemen lose the round before the pro-Taft national committee, they may throw their next punch on the floor of the convention within a few minutes after Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson bangs the gavel for the first time. The Eisenhower campaign manager, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, can move to change a rule and a precedent which have applied at Republican conventions since William Howard Taft's steamroller ran down Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. The rule: the temporary chairman decides whether contested delegations seated temporarily by the national committee should be permitted to vote on contests...
...they prepared to cover the Republican Convention next week, newsmen all agreed on one point. Their big competitor in Chicago will not be the other newsmen; it will be television and its gavel-to-gavel coverage. In a memo to his staff, Scripps-Howard's news executive Dick Thornburg sketched the plan of battle against TV: "Our job more than at any time in the past will be to provide interpretive material. Why did Joe Blow make that kind of a speech? What influence did it have? What votes did it change? Also, forward-looking stories telling the readers...