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Hotel Studio for the LIFE-XBC off-floor telecasts will be in Room 413 of Bellevue-Stratford (above). In this hotel the delefyites and candidates will hold many private conferences. LIFE-NBC coverage will give clearer perspective to whole convention, supply fas cinating insight into how LIFE editors work. ROOIII 22 of convention building, directly above the big meeting hall, will be used for telecasting inter views with candidates and delegates who have just made news on the floor. Top LIFE editors will be on hand to draw out candidates on vital issues and on their chances of nomination. MOBlie Unit will roam streets to pick up any events connected with convention. All these special pro grams by LIFE and NBC will be sent out over NBC network. LIFE’s pictorial sense and ability to clarify the complicated will add interest to the show just as it does to the news in LIFE. Watch theta key delegates-they may swing the nomination WILLIAM KNOWLAND CALIFORNIA (oS delegates) ’ R. R. McCORMICK ILLINOIS (66 delegate») SINCLAIR WEEKS MASSACHUSETTS (36 dtltgaUs) JAMES DUFF PENNSYLVANIA (* 3 delegatet) FORREST DONNELL MISSOURI (33 delegate*) K* JOHN BRICKER OHIO (63 dtkgaUt) III I kisttrle, Joint ventuw in journalism, LIFE and NBC, beginning today, will give many mil lions of Americans box seats to a show they will tell their grandchildren about some day. That show is the first full-scale television of a Presi dential convention. Picture here gives partia^ view of television coverage of just one setting for this great spectacle. Nimbirs refer to: (l) television cameras, (i) news photographers, (S) and (4) newsreel cam eras, (5) television camera and announcer’s booth, (6) master control booth for television, (7) radio control booths, (8) booth for television equipment and maintenance. Other television cameras are in a section of hall, not shown in picture. In addition to floor coverage, LIFE NBC will give intimate glimpses behind the scenes in hotel headquarters, lobbies, other eventful places. mm Cl'llHH ‘ MISSOURI MINNESOTA HfgfiQitiy'-: r|yjtt*o TONIGHT! GOV. THOMAS E. DEWEY-7:00 PM Interviewed by LIFE Managing Editer Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr. Don't miss this zero-hour interview with one of the central figures in this great political drama. As the convention progress**, LIFE will continue to hring you political leaders, key delegates, Hollywood stars, dele gates’ wives, late convention news, exclusive behind-the-scenes reports and many other features, including a delegation actually holding a caucus . . . will show you changes in the political atmosphere almost the moment they take place. TUNE IN AT THESE HOURS Monday and every day of the Convention ' 10:15 AM-2:00 PM 4:30 PM-7:40 PM S:45 PM—MIDNIGHT WNBW CHANNEL 4 LIFE, t MMMtar Plaza, N. Y. C. 20, M.Y. /