From the time it was conceived, television was a long time aborning. Soon it learned to talk, but instead of standing up and walking like its big brother, radio, it has crawled along without getting very far. Last week, still rattling in its playpen, television took a few tentative steps.
For the first time, an event in Washington was televised over a brand-new 225-mile coaxial cable to New York.* In Manhattan's RCA building, New Yorkers saw General Dwight Eisenhower place a wreath at the base of the Lincoln statue, heard others make brief speeches....
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