The Press: Covering the Convention

As Cinemogul Cecil B. (The Greatest Show on Earth) DeMille leaned over the railing of the press gallery at the Republican National Convention last week, a reporter asked: "Does this look like the second greatest show on earth to you?" "No," replied DeMille good-naturedly, "this is the greatest." And for the press it was. More than 3,000 newspapermen (and 2,000 radio-TV men) blanketed Chicago for the biggest, most elaborate coverage ever given any story. Pundits, Washington reporters, foreign correspondents, feature writers, women's-angle writers, columnists and "specials" of every stripe turned out more than...

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