National Affairs: Television Triumph

Pausing in New York on his way to the Governors' Conference at New Castle, N.H., California's big, ruddy Governor Earl Warren gave the Eastern seaboard a quick look at himself.

He was not out delegate-hunting, he told reporters, but his supporters were sending out circulars in his behalf. He had no second choice for the nomination, and California's 53 delegates had assured him that they had no second choice either.

Then he made a little history. Appearing on a CBS television program, he proved himself the best campaigner yet on the newest communications medium to reach into the U.S. home. His big, squarecut...

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