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...about a Prince who can capture the most difficult audience in the world? Well, if we've any sense we should put him on TV. Forward BBC! Forward ITV! Get moving!" With uncharacteristic swiftness, the BBC did move, announced that Philip would repeat his talk over a nationwide hookup...
...crowd estimated at 5,000 greeted Adlai E. Stevenson when he arrived at Logan Airport just before midnight last night. He will speak tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Mechanics Hall on a nation-wide TV hookup...
...Federal, the private railroad car in which Woodrow Wilson rode to victory in 1912, he proclaimed out of the past that the Democrats had beaten the Republicans to social security, the minimum wage, federal aid to the farmer. Meanwhile, his managers had arranged for a national TV hookup so that he could reply to Eisenhower's speeches in Cleveland and Lexington. At Pittsburgh Stevenson stepped before the TV cameras for a speech billed as a "turning point" of the campaign, but his sharp thrusts at Eisenhower and the Republican social-welfare record were dulled by his halting delivery...
...other end of the line. The picture, composed of 2,400 dots changes every two seconds (the standard TV picture changes 30 times a second) can be cut off or on by flicking a switch. Bell scientists, who have watched and listened to each other on a hookup between New York and Los Angeles, refuse to guess when the picturephone will be offerd to the public, or how much it will cost. But a company spokesman says; "We wouldn't be monkeying around with the thing if we didn't believe we could offer it to telephone subscribers...
...ones. CBS's veteran Walter Cronkite. working his familiar anchor spot, gave the most informed, alert and consistently lucid commentary, held up best under the week's strain. His biggest coup: getting Ave Harriman inside the fishbowl to exchange blessings with Estes Kefauver on a split-screen hookup (denounced as "electronic fakery" by rival ABC). CBS's seasoned twosome of Ed Murrow and Eric Severeid was seen only fleetingly, bantering the big picture with the casualness of network executives at a ball game...