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...even reporters with friends among the patronage-holders, could maneuver past the perimeter wall. While waiting you could drum up some interesting slice-of-life stories by roaming the balconies. But after a while the value of those "mood of Democratic America as seen through the loge section of Madison Square Garden" pieces starts to wane. Of course, there is some truth to the argument that policy-making is conducted strictly in the dingy rooms in the adjacent Statler. But the policy makers have never been known to let reporters into their private sessions. A reporter's life and death...
...Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra cuts loose, featuring, on clarinet, a sweetly swinging, nonjoking Woody Allen. Freddie Hubbard plays some hard-driving trumpet at the Schaefer Festival in Central Park on July 14. Buddy Rich may be caught at Storyville (41 E. 58th St.). Uptown, at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison Ave. and 76th St.), Bobby Short wraps standards and show tunes in well-cut velvet, and downtown, in the Village, the Charles Mingus group explores the furthest perimeters of jazz...
...evening this week, as delegates to the Democratic National Convention work out the party's platform over prime-time television, as many as 60 million Americans will be riveted to their sets. Most of those citizens, however, will not be watching democracy in action at Madison Square Garden, but the Major League All-Stars in action at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. The three major networks will together be spending more than $12 million to win viewers to their convention coverage this week, but that event promises to be TV's biggest white elephant (or donkey) since -well, since...
Four Horsepersons. Either way, the networks will have to hustle to hold a crowd that already knows who the winner at Madison Square Garden will be. To add some contentiousness, ABC has signed up Senator Barry Goldwater as a commentator (Senator George McGovern will play a similar role at the Republican convention). ABC already has a drawerful of short (less than four minutes), filmed feature stories on such topics as Jimmy Carter's advisers, a smalltown delegate's impressions of New York City, and the nightmarish 1924 convention, for use when tedium swamps the podium...
Some of the week's most unusual convention action may come when the dozen network floor reporters-accompanied by cameramen, relief correspondents and producers-slug it out with 3,000 other journalists and 5,000 delegates and alternates for breathing space on the claustrophobic Madison Square Garden floor (30,000 sq. ft., or about half the size of a football field). "There might be a few ripped trousers and coats. There might be a few bumps and bruises," says NBC'S Pettit. Of course, some kind of action like that may be necessary to keep the nomination...