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7/12/44
DEWEY TELEVISION TECHNIQUE REPORTED GOOD
Despite transportation difficulties in rushing the nega¬ tives from the Republican Convention to New York, the television pictures evidently proved an eye-opener to Eastern audiences,
A veteran in radio in New York reports:
"The television films were fine, and although 24 hours late, we found them most interesting. We saw Hoover, Luce and Dewey, Dewey has a good television technique. He lays the paper flat on the table in front of him and as you watch him he gives the impression of speaking directly rather than reading which is as it should be on the television. Only once in a while did he seem to glance down at the speech and only when he turned the page was it apparent that he had a prepared speech; he looked the audience straight in the face. It was interesting to see, as soon as Joe Martin slammed the gavel announcing Dewey the candidate and then put the gavel down, some fellow rushed in quickly, grabbed the gavel and put a duplicate in its place, apparently to save the one as an historic memento of the occasion. Joe Martin turned in a flash, as if he had sensed someone had stolen the gavel, but the substitute was right there in its place in the twinkle of an eye. So you see you don’t miss much when it comes to television. Hoover had a good speech but the delivery was the same as of old; Clare Luce went over well both in sound and sight, "
Referring to the Hoover broadcast and "Roosevelt luck",
Hope Ridings Miller wrote in the Washington Post:
"A Washington newspaperman will bet anybody almost any amount that when the Democrats converge on Chicago the temperature will never go above 80 degrees , , . *It*s Roosevelt's luck*, he said, * * *
"When Herbert Hoover arose to address the Republican National Convention, the same newspaperman turned to a colleague, 'Something will happen to the microphone*, he said. 'Roosevelt luck, again.* Something did. Hoover's difficulty in getting the micro¬ phone to work came dangerously near spoiling his speech, "
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First pictures of the Allied invasion on the coast of Normandy were rushed air-mail to the Thomas S. Lee television sta¬ tion W6XA0 in Los Angeles in time for the Monday, June 26th televi¬ sion broadcast. The films showed the troops landing on the beach¬ head and scenes of actual fighting,
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