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...gesticulation may be anything from a full, tense crouch to the subtlest nuance of fingertip or eyebrow. The result, however fantastic to the eye, is nevertheless a brilliant coincidence of musical sensitivity and bodily gesture which comes as an astonishing contrast after his stiff, portentous progress to the rostrum-the short, plumpish, dandified figure, the familiar imperial, the slow walk, the back dead straight, the chin well up, the arms straight by the sides. On his "off" nights he can be more "off" than anybody else; but at his best and when conducting the music he loves-Mozart, Haydn, Berlioz...
Harry Truman had just finished speaking when Adlai Stevenson walked down the steps on to the rostrum. Truman led him forward. It was the first glimpse most of the delegates-and most of the U.S.-had of the man who, Democratic orators told them fervently, would be the next President of the United States. While Truman introduced him, Stevenson stood ramrod stiff behind the President, occasionally rising on tiptoe. Then he began reading his speech. After a week of turgid oratory, Truman's included, Stevenson's words struck an entirely new, deeply appealing note. Most delegates had never...
After Stevenson finished his speech, he withdrew for a little serious politicking. In a low-ceilinged room behind the rostrum, the candidate and the President gathered with Democratic leaders to pick a Veep. The others present: Illinois' ex-Senator Scott Lucas, House Majority Leader John McCormack, Sam Rayburn, National Committee Chairman Frank McKinney, Jack Arvey...
...Douglas quoted a Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum suggesting that the U.S. could well use its Korea-based troops elsewhere. "Now who do you suppose was the Chief of Staff of the Army when this military advice was given?" asked Douglas, theatrically cupping his ears and leaning over the rostrum, as if to listen for an answer. "It was Dwight D. Eisenhower!" And who did the delegates think made the U.S. proposal before the U.N. to withdraw the troops from Korea? Again the ear business, again the triumphant answer: "John Foster Dulles...
Again TV's glassy, curious stare was everywhere. The Democrats were determined to avoid some of the Republicans' TV mistakes. Two cameras had been set up above the floor's center aisle, permitting front views of the speaker on the rostrum. "The Democrats," said one of the Democrats' TV bosses, "will hit the American people...