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...studied U.S. radio and television. Last week the somewhat walleyed visitors−;many of whom had been watching TV for the first time−met in Boston University's School of Public Reations and Communications to compare notes. U.S. technical standards got loud praise, but other features of radio-TV fell under fire. Sample reactions...
...convention, twelve times the 1948 show). ¶ New coaxial cables have been laid. Nearly 73,000 miles of TV channels will link 400 stations in 270 U.S. cities. ¶ An electronic blanket has been thrown over both convention cities. To harness all the new gadgetry, some 2,700 radio-TV people have already swept into the Midwest, hauling 60 tons of electronic eavesdroppers (cameras no bigger than a Cracker Jack box), Dick Tracy walkie-talkies, mini-corders, creepie-peepies and giant telescopic cranes that can poke around into hotel windows from the street. ¶ Automatic tabulating boards, flashing the changing...
Stevenson based his charge on a "report" from an unidentified friend and a column by United Feature Syndicate's pro-Stevenson Doris Fleeson. Columnist Fleeson wrote that Radio-TV Personality John R. (Tex) McCrary, an Eisenhower booster in 1952, had "boasted" about G.O.P. fund-raising for Estes Kefauver. In Manhattan Tex McCrary explained that he had merely commented at a private dinner: "I hear some Republicans helped Kefauver in Minnesota." Tut-tutted Kefauver: "Mr. Stevenson, of course, knows nothing of any Republican money. Apparently he is building up alibi...
...Senator) to the job he wants (governor of Texas) was the problem confronting Price Daniel; he feared that the Texans who sent him to the Senate for six years might be peeved if he applied after four years for another position. Daniel attacked his problem with a radio-TV plea that Texas voters make up his mind for him. Last week, in response to his request that Texans tell him what he ought to do, 29,000 of them sent him messages urging him to run for governor. That was mandate enough for Daniel; forthwith, he opened his campaign with...
...doing it on a schedule, I tend to let it pile up and do it all at once. I know it's terribly hard on my family and my staff, but it's too late to change now." Once a month he goes on a statewide radio-TV hookup to report on the $100 million-a-year public business that he runs. Handsome and easy-mannered, with . a personality made for TV, he refuses to use a script. He chats about a variety of governmental subjects, reads and answers some of his mail over...