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Article: Blue smoke and mears: an AP vet ventilates on eleven elections.(Book Review)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Hyannis, Massachusetts, 1960. Enter Senate candidate Claiborne Pell, decked out in immaculate blue blazer, crisp white shirt and just the right tie. The Rhode Islander is on hand for a routine back pat from the presidential nominee, John F. Kennedy. But a young Associated Press reporter, Walter Mears, notes that Pell has pulled something a little below the belt: he's wearing torn khaki shorts and beat-up tennies, without socks. Pell's upper half is temporarily back from vacation, but it appears the rest of his body is still on the sailboat.
Today, TV and wire photographers--to say nothing of reporters--would have had such a candidate by the shorts. "Are you ...