For her new Press Conference program, Producer Martha (Meet the Press) Rountree dreamed up a new TV formula: a scoop a show. The first Press Conference was too successful. Editors across the U.S. lambasted both the show and U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell for using it to break news of an impending Justice Department antimonopoly suit against General Motors (TIME, July 16).
Last week, for the second Press Conference, Producer Rountree had planned to have Tennessee Governor Frank Clement. But since Clement had been chosen to keynote the Democratic National Convention (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Butler vetoed...
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