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FINNEGAN: It's the first time it's ever been done. I talked to Larry Spivak...
...Sometimes the sheer magnitude of the new gadgets delayed the news. One NBC man got stuck on top of a 70-foot "hi-reach" camera and was forgotten. Twelve ABC men were wedged between electronic gear in a tiny booth until someone called a locksmith. Larry (Meet the Press) Spivak had to be rushed to a doctor to have a small speaker plug removed from his ear. Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson got hopping mad at CBS for "wrecking" his hotel suite, and no one could stand to look at NBC's five simultaneous pictures for very long...
...questioners were regular Panel Member Lawrence Spivak, Jack Bell of the Associated Press, May Craig of the Portland (Me.) Press-Herald and Clyde Mann of the Akron Beacon Journal. * Lausche was obviously paraphrasing, quite probably from a Jefferson letter to John Adams: "Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which regulated it cannot...
Arriving in Washington for a radio-TV appearance, Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio avoided the tumult and the shouting, kept mostly to himself until time to go to the studio. Then, reluctantly, and only under the nagging of Meet the Press Panelist Lawrence Spivak, De Sapio made news that set Democratic party lines to buzzing across the nation...
...eager beaver is What's My Line?'s Dorothy Kilgallen, who often seems to have patterned her technique on that of tenacious Lawrence Spivak of Meet the Press. Hearst-Columnist Kilgallen is distinguished by her no-nonsense approach and her relentless slicing away of extraneous issues in solving such epic equations as whether a contestant is a rabbit poacher or a gravedigger by trade. Says Moderator John Daly admiringly: "Dottie follows a logical, syllogistic construction: she is more of a technician and a scientist in her approach." The only other quizzer to come close to equaling her eager...