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...Minute Extra. Seven tantalizing minutes after the conference began, the President ended the suspense of the historic second-term question. But correspondents had to wait another 15 minutes before they could get the news out. Then the U.P.'s Merriman Smith uttered the conference-ending words ("Thank you, Mr. President"), and newsmen stampeded for the door. Against the risk that their White House correspondents in the front rows might lose precious seconds in the crush, all the wire services stationed extra men near the door; Smith tipped his own man with a wink and a nod as he rose...
...Presi dent was told about the flood of information that was pouring out of the hospital, he told Hagerty approvingly: "I understand you're giving them everything. That's fine with me." Last week the press added its own vote of confidence. Said United Press's Merriman (Thank You, Mr. President) Smith, tough-talking dean of White House correspondents: "Hagerty has done a truly phenomenal job in Denver." Said veteran Eddie Folliard, Washington Post and Times Herald reporter who has been covering the capital since Calvin Coolidge was President: "Hagerty is the best press officer...
...unhappy. I don't see any reason of producing another pressure group until we find out they are really unhappy, with a freedom I would personally dearly love." Before anyone could ask whether that was an announcement that he would not run for reelection, the U.P.'s Merriman Smith shouted, "Thank you, Mr. President," and the conference was over...
Dartmouth expects victories in the mile and the 1000, and McCurdy's distance men will have to better their past times if they are going to catch the Indians' Paul Merriman who completed the mile well under 4:30 against Cornell...
...glaring eyes of four movie and television cameras stared at the scene from a platform at the end of the room. The cameras began to whir before the President came in and remarked that "we are trying a new experiment," and they kept right on until U.P.'s Merriman Smith cried, "Thank you, Mr. President," and ended the conference. Three and a half hours later, after editing by presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, the film was released for television...