Show Business: Mr. Documentary

The three largest producers of documentary films for television are NBC, CBS and David Wolper. At 34, Wolper is the youngest, and often the most vigorous, of the three. His offices on Hollywood's Sunset Strip have grown in the past 42 months from a five-man luck-it shop to a 200-employee corporation with bright white neo-Palladian faqade and 40 cutting rooms—some of which are already crammed with the 8,000,000 ft. of film that Wolper is condensing into The Making of the President 1960, a two-part version of Teddy White's admiring chronicle of the luck...

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