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...Roll 'Em." The announcement stage had been set carefully. On the dance floor of the Boulevard Room in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, workmen had put together the setting of a business office. There was a mahogany desk equipped with an "in" box, a telephone and a lectern, with an American flag at one side and a plain grey curtain in the background concealing the nightclub decor. Gathered in the room, on the appointed day, were some 100 reporters and a few politicians...
Last Gasp. Old Noah Mason bounced down the aisle to the lectern. He began by saying he had not intended to speak at all - the House roared with laughter...
...midst of the debate on censuring Joe McCarthy, one day last week, Senate Majority Leader William Knowland suddenly claimed the floor. Adjusting the lectern on his desk and fingering a prepared text, Knowland aroused momentary hope that at last some Republican leadership was about to be displayed on the McCarthy issue. What he had to say soon dashed that hope, startled his colleagues on both sides of the aisle...
...Shirt." But Adlai Stevenson had gone south to do some serious talking. He stood on a yellow Coca-Cola crate behind a tall lectern and told 10,000 Georgians gathered in front of the state capitol that the Republicans are waving "the Red shirt" now just as they waved "the bloody shirt" after the Civil...
...entered the room, he took off his coat and headed for the lectern, where he apologized for being ten minutes late. Reason: as a reporter, he had been delayed covering a late-breaking story. Then, in the role of a teacher, he started his lecture. He began: "The why-the explanation and interpretation of the news-has become increasingly important in the profession of journalism...