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Word: spielsmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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...convention-jaded eyes. Into the city, beginning late this week, will stream up to 20,000 conventiongoers, led by 2,477 delegates and 1,850 alternates, to jam hotels and motels for 50 miles around. A fantastic corps of 4,000 reporters, pundits, photographers, radio and television performers, spielsmen and technicians (almost double the number in 1952) will swarm around Chicago's International Amphitheatre employing 400 veteran telegraphers to transmit 600,000 words an hour, sending photo plates whirlybirding from a rooftop heliport, poking television's Cyclopic eye into every nook and cranny of the amphitheatre (see RADIO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Man of Spirit | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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