In Pop Gebhart's Hotel & Store at Hopewell, N. J. (pop.: 1,467) some 300 newsmen last week set up a field base of operations. The store, the dining room, the back room were filled day and night with reporters, photographers, radio broadcasters. Among them were Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst Jr., Karl Bickel. Every bed in the hotel's 17 rooms was occupied in shifts. Prices in the town skyrocketed. The meanest lodgings cost $5, ham & eggs 75¢, applejack 50¢ per glass. Even a few prostitutes moved...
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