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4 Convention Coverage
Ben Grauer, who moderates the program, has received tele¬ grams in which his last name has been spelled Brower, Grower, Brewer, Brauer and Glower.
The most humorous wire yet received arrived at NBC conven¬ tion headquarters today. It read: "I am getting concerned. Do you think the Republicans will be out of town by the time the Democrats
move in?" _
SIDELIGHTS OP NBC'S CONVENTION COVERAGE
Senator Harry Cain of Washington literally missed the boat yesterday morning. He was scheduled to appear with Don McNeill aboard McNeill's yacht on NBC-TV's "Dateline Chicago" from 10:00 to 11:00 EDT. Cain arrived at the Columbia Yacht Club too late and saw the yacht heading out on Lake Michigan. He watched the show on a mo¬ bile unit monitor from the shore.
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Prank Bourgholtzer , NBC reporter at General Eisenhower's headquarters in downtown Chicago, told radio listeners at about 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, EDT, that Eisenhower was confident he would get 605 votes at the convention vote to seat the pro-Ike delegation from Georgia. When the balloting took place six hours later, 607 votes went to the Eisenhower forces.
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A microwave relay failure at 7:30 p.m., EDT Wednesday night
threatened to cut off the coverage of the Republican convention from
14 TV stations in the South. Within five minutes representatives of
NBC, CBS, and ABC met in the convention hall, rerouted the microwave
relay to provide the stations with the pool picture while NBC
provided the commentary by David Brinkley and Bob Letts without
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