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STARTING TODAY ON UFE-NBC TELEVISION A history-making presentation of a great spectacle The Republican Convention Starting today, a new kind of television show will pass before your eyes. Combining LIFE’S vivid journalism and the experienced television showmanship of NBC, it will give you the tremendous spectacle of the greatest democracy on earth nominating the man who may well be its next President. It is a show that the average delegate and his wife will spend some hundreds of dollars to attend. And on this historic presentation by LIFE-NBC, the top editors of LIFE will give the millions who see it advantages that even the delegates won’t have. In the next several days, LIFE-NBC television will take you be hind closed doors where nominees are made—or broken... Bring you face-to-face with your favorite candidate and the im portant personalities of our time... Show you the “big break’’ in the race for the nomination before most of the delegates know It is taking place... Show you how the Republican party originated—and what Hi record has been... Take you with LIFE editors to unpubhciaed meetings where im portant decisions are being made... Let you share intimately the whole shouting, cheering, hoarae voiced excitement of the biggest political show on earth. ' Tune in your NBC station today, and while the Republican Con vention is in session, don’t miss a single telecast that you can spar* the time to see. This is the great show television has waited for. It is one that no American living near the 7 NBC network stations on which it will be carried should miss. Another great show coining on life-nbc Television: » The Democratic Convention, beginning My 12 HAROLD £ STASSfN ROBERT A. TAT! ARTH8P H VAN3tN8fP!» THOMAS l DEWEY