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...cutting behind-the-scenes deals. Bradley's was the modern, made-for-television extravaganza of briefly glimpsed public events and quickly forgotten stand-up interviews. Neither the Globe nor CBS gave -or claimed to give-a complete picture. The newspaper preferred analysis and backstage maneuvering to the podium play-by-play. As for TV's supposedly all-seeing eye, it focused on the exuberant demonstrations after Senator Kennedy's rousing Tuesday speech; actually a large portion-perhaps most-of the delegates were not involved in the display...
...president's Wisconsin campaign four years ago, now sits atop the convention throne. It's his party and the way things are going, it looks like he'll be running short of chopped liver, cole slaw and drink mixers long before the networks sign off from their play-by-play coverage of "Convention...
...NOTEBOOK: In addition to Allen, another pivotal Harvard basketball personality ended his career last night. Dave Scheper, WHRB play-by-play man by winter and football center by fall, did his 78 rpm swan song on 93.5 FM. Final Ivy Basketball Standings Penn 11-3 Princeton 11-3 Brown 8-6 Yale 8-6 Harvard 6-8 Columbia 6-8 Cornell 3-11 Dartmouth 3-11 Penn to play Princeton Tuesday night to determine NCAA berth
...typewriters and 40 video display terminals at the Los Angeles Marriott Hotel, where most of the journalists were staying. Each day league publicists churned out highlights of the coaches' press conferences and quotes from leading players. During the game, the league p.r. staff was geared to provide play-by-play summaries and a blizzard of statistics, and planned to produce 15 legal-sized pages of player quotes within hours of the final gun. Newcomers were left slackjawed. Says Mike Tierney of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. "You could cover this thing without ever leaving the hotel...
...book is sprinkled with homey detail. "What's shakin', chiefy baby?" is Marshall's jocular greeting to a startled Burger. At the height of the Agnew scandal in 1973, Baseball Buff Stewart had his clerks slip him play-by-play bulletins on the National League playoffs between the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Mets as he sat on the bench. One note read: "Kranepool flies to right. Agnew resigns." The Brethren also reports some tantalizing What Ifs. The court came within a vote of, in effect, judicially establishing the Equal Rights Amendment: Stewart held...