. Bell telephone magazine . lephone art,supplemented by a highly skillful andtrained organization, made it possi-ble to meet these unprecedented de-mands with promptness and one man, the telephone forcestackled the job and saw it through tothe finish. Careful planning is the first essen-tial element in providing the neces-sary telephone service for a politicalconvention. Weeks before the open- ing session, telephone groups began tolay their plans. Slowly the job gath-ered momentum, and reached a peakof activity when the delegations andthousands of guests from the statesrolled into
. Bell telephone magazine . lephone art,supplemented by a highly skillful andtrained organization, made it possi-ble to meet these unprecedented de-mands with promptness and one man, the telephone forcestackled the job and saw it through tothe finish. Careful planning is the first essen-tial element in providing the neces-sary telephone service for a politicalconvention. Weeks before the open- ing session, telephone groups began tolay their plans. Slowly the job gath-ered momentum, and reached a peakof activity when the delegations andthousands of guests from the statesrolled into the host city by rail, plane,and motor, and swarmed into hotelsassigned to them by convention offi-cials. The convention, to all intent andpurpose, was then on; and no respitefrom the sustained stress was in pros-pect for telephone men and womenuntil a week later, when the city onceagain resumed the even tenor of itsways. LiET us take a look as what is goingon in Philadelphias Convention Hall. Conventions and Communications. TELEVISION PREVIEW Miss Mary E. Martin, assistant chairman\of the convention, is interviewed before the television camera on the sidewalk in front of convention hall prior to the opening of the• convention. At the right is the image as seen by televiewers after transmittal toNBCs New York studio The Chairman steps to the rostrum,calls the convention to order. Hisevery word is picked up by micro-phones of the broadcasting companiesand flashed to millions listening attheir receiving sets. Operating from specially devisedbooths far above the floor of the con-( vention, the broadcasting companiesingeniously devised and strategicallylocated facilities permit, by the mereturning of control switches, the pick-ing up of speeches by delegates, stateby state announcement of the ballot-ing, interspersed at intervals by in-terviews with candidates at their hotels in downtown Philadelphia andby the colorful comments of radiocommentators. Flanking the platform on eithe
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