Radio takes its place in press galleries. Washington, D.C., June 26. Radio, once regarded as a 'poor relative' of the press, now has its own section of the House and Senate galleries reserved for radio news gatherers. Through the efforts of its chairman, Fulton Lewis, Jr., the gallery was created th
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