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Show Convention Ifall Sidelights .... Governor Dwight Green, of Hi-nois, Hi-nois, the convention keynoter who delivered one of the able speeches of the convention, definitely had the lightning rod up on the vice-presidency. vice-presidency. However when the Illinois delegation broke from Green, It went, not to Dewey, but to the hopeless candidacy of Senator Sena-tor Taft. Green couldn't deliver. For the first time network television tele-vision carried the live scenes of this convention to the eastern seaboard from Richmond north to Boston. All television networks "pooled" their shots and fed through a central cen-tral broadcast station so that all networks received the same coverage. "Canned" television took the story Inland. Around Philadelphia every television set was tuned Into convention con-vention hall and even in the lounges at the meeting outside the convention floor, the television was for many a much more popular and comfortable method of "covering" "cover-ing" the proceedings than the .acual convention itself. |