Show Business: Last-Place Tie

If the TV viewer had gone to bed early on Election Night and awakened at 2:10 a.m. E.S.T. to follow the returns, his TV screen would have presented quite a surprise. In many parts of the country, the screens were simply blank; in others they carried sign-off sermonettes or such ancient movie reruns as The Valley of Decision, starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck. Never before in a presidential race had so many stations retired so early. Even during the Johnson landslide they had kept Dracula's hours, but this time all three...

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