Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal Skyway suite of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, Adlai Stevenson and his lieutenants sat looking at the face of Harry Truman on their screen. When Truman said the Democrats should name the candidate with greatest experience in foreign affairs, Adlai grunted, reached for his pencil and pad, began taking notes. Fifty-five minutes later, Stevenson fought his way through a crush of humanity to his downstairs headquarters, paid strained but polite respects to Harry Truman, and said: "I expect to be the Democratic nominee...
Keeping the Inside Track. Pad-and-pencil reporters had to admit that the first major news breaks of the preconvention week went to TV. Adlai Stevenson's support of a strong desegregation plank reached the public first on film on Newscaster John Daly's ABC show in an exclusive interview. Harry Truman's endorsement of Governor Averell Harriman was anything but exclusive; it came before a jammed ballroom of 800-probably the biggest press conference in history. But TViewers saw it as it happened...
...gimmick ran the newsmen. At these conventions the news will come first, even if we don't always have a picture to go along with it." Adds CBS Production Boss Paul Levitan: "There's too much emphasis on folderol-that's just the pad and pencil of the TV reporter. Our job is simply to report the news...
...health of Dwight Eisenhower. As some 600 diplomats and tourists milled about the lawn, Khrushchev chortled to a startled U.S. sightseer: "We have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets of how to milk cows!" Boring in with pencil poised, New York Post Gossipist Earl Wilson heard a New York neurologist ask Bulganin if it was true that psychiatrists are on call around the clock for all Russians. Bantered Bulganin: "I don't know. They haven't had me examined that way yet!" After an hour of such empty...
...outspokenly applauded the maestro's action: "Many times in my own life I have wished that I could have handled the press photographers as well!" Unfortunately, Truman's interpreter omitted the word "photographers." Next day Austria's press, keener on its dignity than many a pencil-clutching U.S. newsman who used to tangle with Harry, took umbrage. Growled a correspondent for Vienna's Neuer Kurier: "It [was] very unsuitable for Mr. Truman to insult the press of this country while a guest at an official reception...