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50. Feb. 19, 1946. Steel strike settled. Chester Bowles asks public
help against inflation. New cardinals visit Eire and France on way
to Rome. Dionne Quintuplets quite grown up at Canadian carnival.
Hollywood stars help inaugurate new air service. Native town gives
African GI big welcome home. Sports: baseball, keeping fit,
sand-sailing, ski meet.

51. Feb. 21, 1946. Canadian expedition "invades" Arctic in Army
maneuver. New cardinals meet in Rome for rites of elevation. News
flashes: banquet for UNO members; U. S. UNO delegates return; woman
of the year [Dr. Lise Meitner]; Greek war heroes in New York; new
passenger giant [Douglas DC–6], Sports: fistic fireworks, bobsled
racing, diving high jinks.

52. Feb. 26, 1946. Pope creates 32 cardinals. Texas holds gala
centennial celebration. Thousands parade in St. Paul Victory
Carnival Festival.

53. Mar. 1, 1946. Personalities in the news: Chiang Kai-Shek hailed
in Shanghai; Mrs. Roosevelt confers with President Truman; Winston
Churchill receives degree in Miami. Looking for a house? Here's a
machine that pours 'em! Fashions. Life can be crazy in balmy
Florida—gin rummy helps. Sports: roller skating, wrestling.

54. Mar. 5, 1946. Hirohito startles his subjects; goes democratic on
tour. News of the nation: Truman food committee; houses for
veterans. President Truman asks your support for the Red Cross.
Brilliant fireworks display provided by surplus ammunition. Sports:
baseball training, ski jumping. Carnival on ice in St. Paul.
Versatile bears perform, starring Rosie, "the Verce."

55. Mar. 8. 1946. Churchill urges U. S.-British ties for world
peace. Truman addresses Council of Churches on trip to Columbus. U.
S. cardinals welcomed back from Rome. Snowbound deer saved from
starving. Sports: boxing, ski jumping. Baseball news [Training of
Washington, Detroit and Chicago].

56. Mar. 12, 1946. Preparations made for A-bomb tests off Bikini
atoll. President Truman says British loan is good business. Empress
of Japan follows Hirohito's democratic ways. Hollywood spotlight
[Oscars for 1945 film bests]. Introducing a seven-year-old prodigy
of boogie-woogie. Texas fete brings out new crop of chin whiskers.
Sports: Santa Anita, Florida, Canada. Baseball news.

57. Mar. 15, 1946. Manchurian city [Mukden] during crisis of Red
occupation. General Motors strike settled after 113 days. A Pacific
island is born, erupting out of the sea. Holiday carnivals recapture
gaiety of peacetime. Ravaging cougars captured alive in mountain
hunt. Spring fashions. Sports from Down Under [Australia]. Baseball
news.

58. Mar. 19, 1946. Peron elected President of Argentina. Churchill
in New York again calls for U. S.-British ties. Cardinal Glennon
goes to his final resting place. UNRRA food for hungry of Europe;
cattle for Greece; Italian children fed. Surplus Army guns stored in
plastic "spider webs." Wearers of green march their best on St.
Patrick's Day. Sport flashes: bowling, billiards, baseball.

59. Mar. 22, 1946. Prime Minister King of Canada accuses Reds in spy
case. Flashes of action: new Navy Mars seaplane goes into Pacific
service; Alpine snow avalanche buries French village; surplus
gunpowder destroyed by U. S. Army; obsolete bombs exploded.
Personalities in world events: Trygve Lie in U. S. for UNO meeting;
General Smith new Ambassador to Russia; Leon Blum on a special
mission for France; Winston Churchill ends visit to U. S. Sports:
steeplechase; basketball.

60. Mar. 26, 1946. UNO meets in New York. Truman outlines program in
talk to Democrats. Operation Frostbite [USS Midway in Arctic waters
to test flying equipment in icy weather]. Most sensational murder
trial in French history [Dr. Marcel Petiot]. Names in the news:
Herbert Hoover, Princess Elizabeth, film stars honored for war
services [Linda Darnell and Charles Boyer]. When spring comes to
Chicago, look what happens.

61. Mar. 29, 1946. Crisis in UNO; Soviet delegate walks out over
Iran question. Oklahoma A. & M. wins basketball title in New York
classic.

62. Apr. 2, 1946. World battle for freedom from want: Stassen urges
aid to Europe; La Guardia heads UNRRA. Russian officer arrested by
FBI on spy charges. News flashes: new British air giant [Tudor II];
spectacular fire in Canada. Navy reveals biggest aircraft rocket
"Tiny Tim." Milwaukee makes plans for 1948 centennial. Will Rogers,
Jr. rides father's horse at rodeo. Meet young Raymond, a strong man
at four months of age. Water sports: yacht race, sea cowboys. New
York State income tax.

63. Apr. 5, 1946. United Nations Council vote ends on Iran question.
Tidal waves caused by undersea quakes wreak vast havoc. Erupting
volcano in Japan threatens to wipe out towns. Goering testifies on
Nazi killings at Nuremberg trial. New rocket soars 43–1/2 miles in
stratosphere. Water sports: Gulf of Mexico; Cypress Gardens.

64. Apr. 9, 1946. Truman explains foreign policy in Army Day speech.
World events: Chinese troops enter Mukden; Rumania celebrates Red
Army Day. News of the nation: UN delegates look for new home;
Arizona graveyard for U. S. war planes. Patton Hall dedicated at
Fort Riley. Spring hat fashions. Four hundred thousand see British
Grand National Steeplechase. Herman Keiser's 282 wins Masters' Golf
[Tournament] in Augusta classic.

65. Apr. 12, 1946. League of Nations in final assembly; UN carries
on. U. S. Navy destroys captured Jap subs in target practice.
Canadian gold rush creates Klondike at Yellowknife. News of the
nation; St. Louis, convention of American Theaters Association;
Annapolis, Middies of U. S. Naval Academy march in review. Fashions
for a rainy day. In the animal world [tame deer and spaniel family].
Daring surf riders and summer sports season in Australia.

66. Apr. 16, 1946. Roosevelt home is dedicated as national shrine.
Germany today: cotton from America; steel mills open; black market
roundup. Names in the news: Canada greets new Governor General,
Viscount Alexander of Tunis; Cardinal Gilroy hailed at Sydney.
Aviation news [Navy puts pontoons on seagoing blimp]. Ladies, how
would you like to have this man in your home? Sports: skiing,
boxing.

67. Apr, 19, 1946, MacArthur urges United Nations to renounce war.
Imperial family of Japan poses for newsreels. Trouble in Trieste
creates another crisis in Europe. Eight-year-old victim emphasizes
need for cancer fund. GI families sail for Europe to join hubbies.
Looking for a car? How about these ritzy models? Baseball season
opens.

68. Apr. 23, 1946. Elections in Japan the democratic way under
MacArthur. Appeal to America to save starving millions abroad. "Big
Mo" visits Greece on good will cruise in Mediterranean. Spectacular
fires in the East cause heavy damage. General Eisenhower visits
birthplace on trip to Texas. Greek runner here seeking U. S. aid
wins Boston marathon. Peacetime Easter brings out throngs and
holiday finery.

69. Apr. 26, 1946. President Truman sees spectacular fleet
maneuvers. Action flashes in the news of aviation: airliner crashes
into house in North Hollywood; airborne lifeboat; balloonists thrill
Paris; personalities out of the past: "General" Coxey of Coxey's
army in 1894; Jim Jeffries, heavyweight title winner in 1899.
Australian cowboys take rodeo spills like U. S. brothers. Hollywood
spotlight [fashions]. Story of the three little bears in big debut
at the zoo.

70. Apr. 30, 1946. Big Four meeting in Paris to map peace treaties.
Worst train wreck in recent history takes many lives. News flashes:
Presidential vacation cruise; giant Flying Wing bomber [Northrop
XB–35]; Navy Operation Mothballs [500 inactive warships sprayed and
painted]. Religion [68 priests ordained in Paris], LaGuardia appeals
to wheat farmers to help feed world. Sports: French auto race; Penn
Relays.

71. May 3, 1946. Captured pictures show how Nazi V–2 rocket was
born. News flashes here and abroad: explosion wrecks warship [USS
Solar unloading ammunition off New Jersey]; sunken Jap silver
salvaged; gifts from Tibet; tribute to India's Army. Names in the
news: Admiral Hewitt decorated in Italy; Somerset Maugham presents
novel to Library of Congress. New York slum area razed for world's
biggest housing project. Blessed events are no novelty in this
family of 17 children. Sports: French bicycle race, soccer in
England.

72. May 7, 1946. Alcatraz convicts foiled in prison break attempt.
American Mother of 1946 is first Negro so honored. Apple-blossom
time festivals. Dignified citizens of Penguin Island settle a
problem. Louis and Conn sign for heavyweight title bout. The
Kentucky Derby [Assault wins].

73. May 10, 1946. World events: Russia, Switzerland, France, Japan.
American wheat for the hungry world. News flashes: Coal mine fire in
Australia; policewomen for Tokyo; new propeller for ships. Spring
brings out animals in pups—they wanna fight.

74. May 14, 1946. V–2 rocket soars 75 miles up in U. S. Army test.
Truman warns: The world cannot survive an atomic war. Tojo and 27
Japs on trial in Tokyo for war crimes. Raids on Shanghai black
market in GI goods. World's largest dam [Grand Coulee, in
Washington] is a highway for grazing sheep. Sports: college rowing
regatta, Assault wins Preakness.

75. May 17, 1946. Hoover reports to President on world famine.
Foreign events: De Gaulle pays homage at Clemenceau's grave;
Churchill receives ovation on visit to Holland. Movie industry
collection fund for Red Cross [in Washington, D. C. and Hollywood,
California]. Action flashes in the news: Nazi poison gas dumped into
ocean; iceberg patrol in the Atlantic; fountains of Versailles.
Sports: tennis, bike race, trotting.

76. May 21, 1946. Army plane crashes into Wall Street skyscraper in
fog. Secretary Byrnes reports failure of Paris parley. Foreign
affairs; Humbert II is the new King of Italy; Allies mark VE-Day in
Berlin; Churchill tours Holland. European refugees of war seek new
life in America. Carnival time in Holland, Michigan. Gold miner hits
one hundred thousand dollar jackpot in small bills. Ship-shape
Florida beauties hold sail regatta over sand.

77. May 24, 1946. Operation Crossroads: U. S. Army and Navy ready
for atomic bomb test at Bikini. Strike paralyzes railroad traffic
throughout nation. Eisenhower visits China and Japan in tour of Far
East. Evangeline Booth is honored for her service to humanity.

78. May 28, 1946. President Truman takes firm action to end rail
strike. Coal strike again imperils nation as truce ends. President
Truman keeps date with wounded vets. San Antonio battles polio peril
with barrage of DDT. Louis and Conn train for heavyweight title
fight.

79. May 31, 1946. Coal strike settled. News of the nation: floods
hit Eastern states; U. S. grants loan to France; 8th fleet ends
maneuvers; homecoming from Guam. Names in the news: Sergeant Martin
Maher leaves West Point after fifty years; Booker T. Washington
honored as educator; Henry Ford, fifty years an auto maker.
Inflation in Paris. Baseball news. Mr. and Mrs. George N. Davis,
with 20 children go in for family life in a big way here.

80. June 4, 1946. General Eisenhower has message for U. S. on D-day
anniversary. Foreign events: Rome demonstrations; justice in Prague.
News of the nation: Margaret Truman graduated; New York police
outing for kids; floods rage in Pennsylvania; hospitality for UN.
Cameragraphs [of Choco Indian tribe]. Sports: horse racing.

81. June 7, 1946. Names in the news: Fred M. Vinson as new Chief
Justice and John W. Snyder as new Secretary of the Treasury.
Fifty-eight dead, hundreds injured in tragic Chicago hotel fire.
News flashes from abroad: new Jap cabinet; Rome gives thanks.
Graduation day at West Point and Annapolis. Personalities: General
H. H. Arnold retires as Army Air Forces commander. Ancient gas
buggies chug again in auto jubilee at Detroit. Crowds see display of
winning form at Devon horse show. Peace, it's wonderful! Lucky
sweepstakes winners are back.

82. June 11, 1946. Britain celebrates Victory Day with mammoth
parade. U. S. Army recovers stolen German crown jewels. General
Chiang Kai-Shek moves government back to Nanking. Forty thousand men
attend Holy Name salute to war veterans. Floating dormitory solves
vet problem at Marietta College. Millions of roses used in
Portland's festival parade. Aviation news: airborne tactics; push
button plane; ejector seat. Crowd of 150,000 sees 50–1 shot win the
English Derby.

83. June 14, 1946. On trial for murder: Nazis face justice for
massacre of U. S. war prisoners in Battle of the Bulge. News flashes
of action: new Navy rocket devices; oil refinery fire in Indiana.
Operation Crossroads. Old Jap industry of pearl culture back in
operation. Silly seals swim with or without water in pool. Animals
and men tangle in wildest of jumpin' rodeos at Livermore,
California.

84. June 18, 1946. World events: atomic bomb control plan; Paris
meeting of Big Four; inauguration of Peron [at Buenos Aires].
Aviation [moving the world's greatest airplane]. Fashions for
summer. Mangrum captures U. S. open golf title in three-way
play-off. Lew Lehr launches some big splashes in diving meet.

85. June 21, 1946. Soviet offers own atom-bomb plan, upholding veto.
News flashes: tornado hits U. S. and Canada; couple faces gem theft
trial; Monarchists riot in Rome; Republicans hail new regime. Movie
news: Hollywood stars attend premiere of "Smoky." Sports: tennis,
boxing. Miss Atlantic City [Betty Jones] chosen in beauty pageant
preview.

86. June 26, 1946. Vinson sworn in as nation's thirteenth Chief
Justice. Foreign affairs: France, Austria, India, Mexico. "Flying
stovepipe" reaches speed of 1,500 miles an hour. Cambridge church
services recall colonial days. Fashions for the beach. Sports:
rowing regatta, sheep dog trials, college track meet, St. Louis zoo
chimps stage a real Wild West riding show.

67. June 28, 1946. Gromyko's three vetoes mark UN session on Spanish
issue. News of the nation: fire razes [New York] ferry terminal;
John W. Snyder sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury. Flying Wing's
first flight. Starvation stalks tragic Chinese in civil war. Film
flashes from abroad: France, Belgium, Japan. Entire Gloucester
fishing fleet is blessed in port. Doggy St. Bernards fly to compete
in show of champions. Couple starts life of ups and downs on
merry-go-round.

88. July 2, 1946. Zero hour at Bikini. President Truman explains his
veto of the OPA bill. Des Moines thrilled by colorful Iowa
centennial parade. Sports: yacht race, women's golf.

89. July 3, 1946. News reports here and abroad: V–2 rocket test on
New Mexican desert; [500 Japanese American troops] return from war;
reunion in Japan. UNRRA brings food to the starving people of China.
Plucky girl swims 15 miles to safety in yachting tragedy. Sports:
turf thriller, royal horse show. Here's how they beat the heat in
Chicago—how're you doing?

90. July 9, 1946. Operation Crossroads: fourth atomic bomb exploded
at Bikini in awesome test; bomb away; effects of the blast.

91. July 12, 1946. Mother Cabrini is canonized as first U. S. saint.
News reports from abroad: India, China. Fashions in hats. Huge
throngs hail gala premiere of "Centennial Summer." Sports: tennis,
golf, horseracing, baseball.

92. July 16, 1946. A nation is born: Philippines receive
independence from U. S.—a pledge kept. Foreign affairs: Secretary
Byrnes home; loan to Britain signed; turmoil in Trieste. Paris is
back to normal in many ways. Thrills and spills in the world of
sports.

93. July 19, 1946. Secretary Byrnes reports on Paris peace parleys.
Siam stunned by the mysterious death of its young King. Film flashes
from Europe. Postmaster General's daughter christens destroyer in
Maine. French cycle fans get around in the "cwaziest" ways. Sports.

94. July 23, 1946. News flashes: war heroes honored; gas explosion
at Onset, Massachusetts; the Phantom, Navy's jet fighter plane. U.
S. helps fight food famine. Movie news—"Centennial Summer." Fashions
in hats. Lew Lehr goes a-visiting in his world of pets. Sports:
bathing beauties, boxing in Bangkok, Diaper Derby.

95. July 26, 1946. Mme. Sun Yat-Sen stirs storm in China politics.
News flashes: housing shortage; Hollywood honors stars of "Anna and
the King of Siam"; air routes of the post-war world. Children's
fashions. Shriners parade 15,000 strong in San Francisco. Sports:
Atlantic City race track; gliding; Wacs go fishing in Gulf of
Mexico. Lew Lehr and other chimps pose for Paris sculptor.

96. July 30, 1946. Terrorists bomb Jerusalem hotel in Palestine
crisis. News of the nation: Paris Peace Conference; revival of OPA.
Bernard Shaw, now ninety, grants typical Shavian interview. Lew Lehr
referees the battle of the bathing beauties. Sports: national open
water ski championships; All-American golf tournament.

97. Aug. 2, 1946. Paris Conference meets for signing of peace
treaties. News events from abroad: pageant in Moscow; curfew in
Jerusalem; evacuation of Germans. Film flashes: Cesar Romero and
Tyrone Power attend aviation show; Tom Cummisky crowns Potato Queen.
Ferry-boat disaster in Missouri. Children of Vienna find "real"
drama in Punch and Judy. Hare and hounds chase is thrilling sport in
Australia.

98. Aug. 6, 1946. The amazing spectacle at Bikini: remarkable films
of man's fifth atomic bomb exploding in underwater test.

99. Aug. 9, 1946. First look inside the home of the atomic bomb.
Political sidelights: Truman's vote; Slaughter is defeated; GI's win
in Athens, Tennessee. News flashes: earthquake in West Indies;
gambling ship off California coast; weed killer (2, 4–D) in Canadian
wheat field. Parents see double in this family of four sets of
twins. Sports: sailboat regatta, bullfighting.

100. Aug. 13, 1946. Film reports from abroad: Palestine—[riots in]
Tel Aviv; Brazil [visited by] General Eisenhower; Germany—U-boat
pens; Manila—clearing Philippine Harbor; Antwerp, Belgium—300th
anniversary of Peter Paul Rubens. News of the nation:
Washington—Truman signs terminal leave bill; Moses Lake—[tons of]
mashed potatoes crushed by steam roller; Hollywood premiere of "Anna
and the King of Siam"; Wildwood—baby parade. The Hambletonian
trotting classic won by favorite. Folks, you must meet Herman the
monkey, an all-around star.

101. Aug. 16, 1946. U. S. British ship dispute 4–1/2 million dollar
prize of the sea. World affairs: Paris; Palestine. Aviation [U. S.
Army tests XB–36]. President Truman goes for a walk—and he is brisk.
Sports: 20–mile aquaplane race; form shows in this contest;
motorboat regatta.

102. Aug. 20, 1946. Jewish extremists sentenced; Haifa scene of
tension. Italians, Yugoslavs in conflict over treaty for Italy:
Paris, Moscow, Italy. News flashes: President on vacation; Churchill
as Lord Warden; Miss Texas of 1946 chosen. Lew Lehr discovers pigs
can swim—he's going in for a dip. Sports: speedboat championship;
helicopter to judge racing; Soap-box Derby bicycle championships.

103. Aug. 23, 1946. Admiral Blandy reports on Bikini atom tests.
News flashes: Admiral Halsey in Chile; sports model sea plane;
glacier mountain climbing. Ocean-flying models display fashions over
Atlantic. Mama lion in Paris zoo shows off her new babies. Sports:
baseball, billiards, swim meet.

104. Aug. 27, 1946. Yugoslav crisis eased by release of American
fliers. Prosecutors sum up against Nazi gang at Nuremberg.
Personalities in the news: President Truman takes a swim; Aga Khan
weighed in diamonds; Pope Pius goes for a rest. Alpine thrills:
school for mountain guides; air exploit in the Alps. Sports:
football, diving.

Volume 29, 1946/47.

1. Aug. 30, 1946. Refugees barred from Palestine land at Cyprus. UN
Security Council opens new session; U. S.—Soviet clash.
Personalities in world news: King George of Greece awaits call to
return; Monty of "Alamein" on visit to Canada; President Truman
fishes, has no luck. Cameragraphs [thrills of whaling filmed off the
Chilean coast]. Sports: tennis, football. Youngest set has its day:
cutest threesomes; 1946 baby champion.

2. Sept. 3, 1946. Halsey speaks out on the freedom of the seas. Army
demonstrates "ejection seat" for saving pilot's lives. News flashes:
Nisei heroes home; ocean wanders. Hollywood fashions. Sports: rodeo,
golf, hunt. Canadian girls go streamline.

3. Sept. 6, 1946. Trouble spots of the world. Yugoslavia, Greece,
the Mediterranean, Palestine. Eisenhower speaks to the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. Thrilled thousands watch national air races at
Cleveland. Sports: auto racing, ice skating. Jitterbug frolic at
Harvest Moon Ball in New York.

4. Sept. 10, 1946. Secretary Byrnes makes declaration of U. S.
policy on Germany. Constant conflict marks deportation of Jews to
Cyprus. Seaports of entire nation tied up by shipping strike.
Two-year-old baby is sole survivor of airliner tragedy. Sports:
tennis, polo. California girl wins crown of Miss America.

5. Sept. 13, 1946. London Conference seeks solution for Palestine
problem. Monty of Alamein welcomed here on first visit to U. S.
Religion: Lourdes pilgrimage. Aviation [safety harness tested].
Fashions for Brazil. Hint for hot-heads: man takes air trip in cake
of ice. Sports: model plane meet, boomerang throwers.

6. Sept. 17, 1946, News reports from Europe: Reception at
Versailles; Nazi gang in last plea; more trouble in Trieste;
destroying Siegfried Line. Film flashes: giant C–54 catches fire,
modernistic baptism. Sports: rodeo spills; Salmon Derby; water baby
[three year-old David Hughes].

7. Sept. 20, 1946. Secretary Wallace sees President and says "no
more speeches." Action flashes of world news: aftermath at Bikini;
"squatters" in London; P–84 flies 611 m.p.h.; 1–1/2 million dollar
[Australian] wool blaze. Movie stars make goodwill air tour of Latin
America. Lehr finds new fishing angle. Spills and thrills at horse
jumping meet in Australia.

8. Sept. 24, 1946. Heroic rescue of 18 from plane crash in
Newfoundland. President Truman fires Wallace from Cabinet.
Personalities in the news: Marshall Montgomery, General Clark,
Archbishop of Canterbury. Berlin rebuilds slowly from ruins of war.
Celebrations honor American history at Hartford, Connecticut.
All-golden horses vie in spectacular show in Missouri. Football is
here; West Point, Pittsburgh, Baltimore.

9. Sept. 27, 1946. America buries five fliers shot down over
Yugoslavia. Religion: Pope Pius XII blesses Italian Boy Scouts;
Catholics attend Holy Hour in Chicago. Foreign events: China teems
[with activity]; reclaiming flooded lands. Greece prepares [for
return of King]. Canadian fishermen catch record haul of giant
salmon. U. S. launches first flying post office to speed the mails.
Sports: boat racing, rodeo thriller.

10. Oct. 1, 1946. Allied court finds Nazi gang guilty at Nuremberg.
Stalin leads Soviet big-wigs at funeral of President Kalinin.
British speed flyer killed in jet plane trying for record. Fred
Allen has his say at banquet to honor Variety Club. New bathing
suits are made of wood. The pigskin parade: West Point; Washington;
Champaign. California voters are urged to go to polls in November.

11. Oct. 4, 1946. Navy plane breaks world's non-stop distance
record. Greece gives King George ovation on return from exile. U. S.
Navy explodes 500,000 pounds of TNT in Idaho test. Movie executive
[Barney Balaban] is honored for charity work. Australian wool
auction provides some wild bidding. Sports: women's amateur golf;
roller-skating spectacle.

12. Oct. 8, 1946. Nazi leaders hear death sentences as war trial
ends. Sports: the World Series. Football: New York; Los Angeles;
Austin.

13. Oct. 11, 1946. Secretary Byrnes in Paris speaks on Stalin's "no
war" statement. U. S. Army B–29 flies over top of world, Honolulu to
Cairo. Names in the news: Paul H. Griffith, Chief Justice Vinson, W.
Averell Harriman, Jack L. Warner, General Eisenhower. National
cotton-picking contest held in Arkansas. Film flashes: farmers
battle ducks; Red Cross aids Chinese. Sports: World Series;
football.

14. Oct. 15, 1946. President Truman lifts controls on meat prices.
News reports from abroad: SS Queen Elizabeth; demonstration in
Trieste. General Stilwell, hero of Burma, dies in California. Vast
throng sees colorful "Veiled Prophet" parade. Hollywood stars seek
arbitration in movie strike. The pigskin parade: Ann Arbor,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Los Angeles.

15. Oct. 18, 1946. Peace Conference in Paris ended; Byrnes returns.
Windsors in England together—first time since abdication. Record
salmon run battles Canadian rapids to spawn. Navy reveals new
electric catapult ["Electro-pult"] to launch planes. Meat on the
table; livestock rolls to market again. Cardinals win world series.

16. Oct. 22, 1946. U. S. Navy reveals wartime secrets on
anniversary. "Queen Elizabeth" makes first trip as luxury liner.
News flashes from abroad: Greek demonstrations; General Eisenhower
tries his golf in Scotland. Football highlights: Army vs. Columbia;
Tennessee vs. Alabama; Texas vs. Arkansas; U.C.L.A. vs. California.

17. Oct. 25, 1946. President Truman opens UN General Assembly in New
York. Sports: hockey season; riding the rapids; girl acrobats. Trap
for baboons in zoo is big flop; they're too smart.

18. Oct. 29, 1946. News flashes: Navy displays [helicopter];
notables sail [on the Elizabeth]; hunting buffalo [at Elk Island,
Canada]. Lounging fashions. New Zealand woman has slippery hobby—she
tames eels. Football highlights: Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New
York, Iowa City.

19. Nov. 1, 1946. U. S., Soviet debate disarmament in UN Assembly.
End of maritime strike starts flow of goods. "Winnie" Churchill has
laugh with 8th Army veterans. Fighting corvettes of wartime turned
into luxury liners. Sports flashes: thirteen year-old Samson [Jimmy
Garvin]; fishing paradise [in Australia]; motorcycle speed [in
Austria].

20. Nov. 5, 1946. Big Four foreign ministers meet in New York. Names
in the news: President Truman; U. S. movie stars [in England];
Darryl Zanuck. Aviation: antiaircraft training; planes crash [in
Navy tests]. Union craftsmen display skill in St. Louis show. June
Haver hailed as Rock Island's Cinderella girl. Football highlights:
Baltimore, Evanston, Athens.

21. Nov. 8, 1946. Election landslide gives Republicans Congress
control. Hindu-Moslem feud flares in violence throughout India:
Nehru attacked; Ghandi in Calcutta. Palestine crisis increases with
new outbreaks: terrorists bomb [Jerusalem depot]; refugees
transferred. Cashier [William Arthur Nickel] arrested; faces charges
in $750,000 swindle. Movie stars hailed at royal command film
performance. Canadian pulp logs sent down river in record drive.

22. Nov. 11, 1946. Remarkable films of new V–2 rocket tests by U. S.
Army. News flashes: Molotov at White House; Armistice Day
ceremonies; Admiral Byrd honored; Windsors arrive in U. S.; British
models visit here. Something new in autos; you can fly it or drive
it. Game of the year: Army-Notre Dame football classic.

23. Nov. 15, 1946, President Truman asks cooperation of G.O.P.
Congress. Hunt [for] crashed U. S. airman among Lolo tribes in
China. King leads Britain in impressive rites on Armistice Day;
British honor American pigeon for war feat. U. S. progress at sea
and in the air: American queen of the seas; largest transport plane.
Giant parade marks Armistice Day in Iola, Kansas. Sports: Melbourne
Cup race; one hundred year-old golfer.

24. Nov. 19, 1946. Bombs are hurled in jurisdictional Hollywood
strike. News and action film reports: Navy tests new torpedo; Japs
get new constitution; Mrs. America 1946. Football Titans keep
winning; Notre Dame vs. Northwestern; Army vs. Penn.

25. Nov. 22, 1946. V–2 rocket camera photographs earth from 65 miles
up. U. S. in showdown with Lewis over soft coal strike. Along
Broadway ["The Razor's Edge" premiere]. International week
celebrated in New Orleans. Movietone's All-America [outstanding
football players of 1946].

26. Nov. 26, 1946. John L. Lewis stands trial for contempt. Foreign
affairs: British leave Egypt; new President of Chile. Arts and
sciences: Roosevelt statue; sun eclipse; Canadian dam. Football
climax: Notre Dame-Tulane; Yale-Harvard; U.C.L.A.-U.S.C.;
Illinois-Northwestern.

27. Nov. 29, 1946. Famed Monte Cassino Abbey to be rebuilt out of
ruins of war. Three more countries become members of United Nations.
News flashes: drive-in bank; radio-controlled plow; sheep shearing;
Santa Claus Lane; hand-painted bathing suits. Sports:
Woodcock-Martin bout; fox hunt; skiing in Lapland.

28. Dec. 3, 1946. Rescue epic in air crash in the Alps. Once mighty
Normandie's last mile. Army-Navy football. Seventy-eight thousand
see Penn defeat Cornell in grid classic. Trippi runs wild as Georgia
beats Georgia Tech. Notre Dame ends season unbeaten, downing U.S.C.,
26–6.

29. Dec. 6, 1946. Byrd's Antarctic expedition leaves for South Pole.
News of the nation: Washington [John L. Lewis fined]; Milwaukee
[massed picketing and violence at Allis-Chalmers]; Wright Field
[German scientists continue U. S. aviation experiments]; Chicago
[4–H Club picks perfect specimens of American youth]; new President
of Mexico [Miguel Aleman] sworn in. Spectacular plays of grid
season's last big games. Sports: tennis in Australia; mystery game
in mud.

30. Dec. 10, 1946. Atlanta hotel fire, worst in U. S. history, takes
terrible toll. Soft coal strike called off by John L. Lewis.
President Truman awards seven medals to hero soldier. World events:
London, New York, Italy, Lebanon. Ready for Merry Christmas? So are
Florida fish. Sports: a dog's life in Toledo; wrestling rough house.

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26. Nov. 25, 1947. The royal wedding [of Princess Elizabeth and
Prince Philip]. Football: Yale-Harvard; Notre Dame-Tulane; USC-UCLA.

27. Nov. 28, 1947. New French Premier and Cabinet fight crisis of
strikes. Action flashes from abroad: grasshoppers plague Australia;
Vienna building razed. Aviation: largest land plane in world [XC–99]
in test flight. Movie executives purge Hollywood of Communists. Film
servicemen are decorated in mass ceremony [Darryl F. Zanuck, Ben
Lyon, Lon McCallister, and others]. "City of Kansas City," first
intra-Missouri streamliner. Sports: Yankees-Cleveland pro football;
girl wrestlers.

28. Dec. 2, 1947. UN votes to divide Palestine into Arab and Jewish
states. Washington headliners: President Truman visits the Freedom
Train in Washington; Carl Gray is appointed head of Veterans'
Administration; Samuel Goldwyn is honored for his war effort; Jesse
Donaldson becomes the new U. S. Postmaster General; Robert Hannegan
buys St. Louis baseball club. Royal newlyweds [Princess Elizabeth
and Prince Philip] spend honeymoon in the country. Tyrone Power ends
goodwill air tour of 32,000 miles. Army-Navy football classic. Penn
defeats Cornell.

29. Dec. 5, 1947. Troops and police fight Red strikers in French
crisis. Turmoil marks UN partition of Palestine. Flashes of action:
Canadian logging; army flights [in New Zealand and the southern
Alps]. Livestock champions compete for prizes at Chicago show.
European boxers put on exciting bout in Paris. 1947 football
highlights.

30. Dec. 9, 1947. French crisis points East-West conflict on
Marshall plan: Big Four parley in deadlock; Dulles confers in Paris;
French Communists; Paris Express wrecked; U. S. Friendship Train.
Tension mounts in Arab-Jewish situation. News of atomic development:
Chicago [celebration at the University of Chicago of fifth atomic
birthday]; Washington [announcement by Atomic Energy Commission
Chairman Lilienthal]. Vacation fashions. Roman Catholic High School
wins city grid championship [at Philadelphia]. Notre Dame ends
season unbeaten, routing USC.

31. Dec. 12, 1947. News of the Nation: Truman opens Everglades
National Park; Piper Cubs end world flight; counterfeit ring
smashed. France pays final tribute to General Le Clerc, Holland
children, even princesses, hail St. Nicholas. Sports: Johnny Lujack
honored; Australian tennis [John Bromwich vs. Jim Brink; Colin Long
and Billy Sidwell vs. Adrian Quist and Jim Brink]; French fencing;
ice skating champ [Barbara Ann Scott].

32. Dec. 16, 1947. Soviet Russia takes drastic steps to combat
inflation. Japanese Emperor sees atom-bombed city of Hiroshima.
Names in the news: Admiral Nimitz retires; Admiral Denfeld succeeds
Admiral Nimitz; $50,000 Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund check;
Mrs. George Skouras re-christens a Friendship food ship. Cardinal
Spellman holds a Christmas party for New York foundlings. Cleveland
Browns defeat football Yanks for title.

33. Dec. 19, 1947. Communist general strike in Rome fails amid
scenes of riot. Last U. S. troops leave Italy. Congress passes bill
for interim aid to Europe. A message [on food] from Alan Ladd and
William Demarest. U. S. Army produces its own blizzards for arctic
tests [at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey]. Girls, these mighty muscle men
display perfect physiques [Joffre L'Heureaux wins title of Mr.
Canada at Montreal]. Children of foreign diplomats wish you a Happy
New Year.

34. Dec. 23, 1947. Secretary Marshall home [from London Conference]
with report on parley failure. The world food situation: Jimmy
Stewart pleads for food conservation; Friendship [Train] food in
France; Secretary Anderson's food report. Aviation: XB–47 jet bomber
[tested]. Reduce hidden taxes, urges Congressman Dingell. Fashions
for skating. Olympic ski stars: Canadian Olympic ski training;
skiing in Switzerland, in New Zealand.

35. Dec. 26, 1947. Highlights of 1947. World events: Legal end of
war; the Marshall Plan; Indian independence; Palestine divided;
British royalty on tour. News of the Nation: Hurricane in Florida,
Louisiana and Mississippi; sea lions; Congressional committee probes
war contracts. Aviation: Navy jet plane; Army jet bomber, the Flying
Wing; Howard Hughes' Flying Boat. The feminine world. Lew Lehr's
specialties. Disaster and spectacle: Texas City razed by explosions
and fire; Vistula River ice jam; Iceland's Mt. Nekla erupts anew.
Science: Bavarian observatory records sun in eclipse; V–2 rocket
launched from "Midway."

36. Dec. 30, 1947, Heaviest snowfall in history of New York
paralyzes city. Wallace will run for president on 3rd party ticket.
News flashes: Philadelphia fire; Friendship Food Train in Paris
[Drew Pearson is made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor]; Navy jet
fighter [Panther, on trial flight]. This is no place for men with
cold feet [Iceberg Athletic Club goes into the water at Coney
Island]. Chicago Cards beat Philadelphia for football title.

Volume 31, 1947/48.

1. Dec. 31, 1947. Sports thrills of 1947: Horse racing; auto racing;
golf; baseball; football; fishing; winter sports; boxing; wrestling;
water sports.

2. Jan. 6, 1948. First films made inside an atomic plant in Canada.
Tojo takes stand in war crimes trial at Tokyo. Freaks of weather:
Louisiana tornado; floods in France. Hail to 1948: [New Year's
celebrations in New York and London]. Mummers in fancy dress strut
their stuff despite rain [Philadelphia]. Pasadena hails its
Tournament of Roses parade [General Bradley is Grand Marshal]. A
message [on food] from John Garfield. Bowl football: Rose Bowl,
Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Sugar Bowl.

3. Jan. 8, 1948. Truman reports to Congress on state of Union.
Michael of Rumania forced by Reds to abdicate throne. Film reports
of news events: Contraband for Palestine; Marines to Mediterranean;
New York State bonus [for veterans]. Pasadena hails its Tournament
of Roses Parade. Sports: Bear Mountain ski jumping; Golden Gloves
boxing.

4. Jan. 13, 1948. Senate Committee hears Marshall urge his plan.
News events from abroad: De Gaulle at St. Étienne; Haile Selassie;
Jap pay telephone. Acrobatics on high mark All-American Air Show at
Miami. Sports: Los Angeles Open Golf [Tournament]; [New England]
Sled Dog race; college ski meet [at Sun Valley, Idaho]; junior ski
school [at Dartmouth College].

5. Jan. 16, 1948. U. S. Senate probes market trading by insiders;
Harold Stassen and General Graham at inquiry. News flashes: Burma
independence; U. S. submarines [being reconditioned] for Turkey;
Chennault weds in China. Silver Skates [races at Madison Square
Garden].

6. Jan. 20, 1948. News of the Nation: Eisenhower in Philadelphia;
Chicago gas blast; air crash in Maryland; feeding starving deer
[Bear Mountain, N. Y.]; Mary Pickford in Canada. California sends
shipload of milk to Europe's needy. Chimpanzees in Belgium put on
artistic show. Sports: ski jumping [Fox River Grove, Ill.]; Middle
Atlantic skating [Newburgh, N. Y.]; Australian yacht race.

7. Jan. 23, 1948. Petrillo defends Musicians' Union at
[Congressional] labor inquiry. Twenty men play 400 instruments, all
harmonicas [Germany]. Science: Supersonic rocket car [Muroc Air
Base, Calif.]. Navy fliers test immersion suit for icy waters.
Sports: N. Y. U.-Colgate basketball, skiing in [Wengen] Switzerland.

8. Jan. 27, 1948. Stassen-Pauley clash on "Inside" market raiding.
Jerusalem today [scenes of strife between Jews and Arabs]. Gandhi
ends fast; India and Pakistan accept mediation. Chinese inflation
hits weddings. "Voice of America" to tell the world the truth about
U. S. [the Smith-Mundt bill]. Gold rush of '49 is re-enacted on site
of El Dorado. Milk ship sails [from California] with cargo for
Europe's needy. Sports: Bob Feller signs up [with Cleveland];
Canadian iceboating [Hamilton, Ont.]; family of golfers [the
Bauers].

9. Jan. 30, 1948. Millions of Hindus bathe in Ganges in holy
festival. Record cold wave hits Nation, halts vital river traffic.
U. S. Navy displays new amphibious barge. "Gentlemen's Agreement"
named best picture of 1947 [John Garfield accepts award in behalf of
Producer Darryl Zanuck]. Baby tigers learn about circus life at very
early age. Sports: Skiing in Rockies [International Intercollegiate
Ski Meet near Rossland, British Columbia]; ski jumping [Arne Ulland,
Arthur Tokle, and others at Dubuque, Iowa]; boxing in Paris [Marcel
Cerdan vs. Giovanni Manca].

10. Feb. 3, 1948. The world mourns Mahatma Gandhi, slain by
assassin. Film highlights of world news: Pope thanks U. S. [for
Friendship Train food]; Friendship food burned [Paris]; Marines sail
for Mediterranean; Montreal airport clears snow. Spectacular parade
opens St. Paul's winter carnival. Sports: Winter Olympics begin [St.
Moritz]; Santa Anita racing; Millrose Games [Madison Square Garden].

11. Feb. 6, 1948. U. S., Canada join in mercy flight to frozen
[village in Labrador]. [King] Leopold in Havana. French dam [on
River Rhone]. Exercise Snowdrop [paratroop maneuvers at Pine Camp,
N. Y.]. Four are now nine, as Badgett quads enjoy a birthday.
Hollywood spotlight; "Look" awards [presented by Bob Hope to
Twentieth Century-Fox for "Gentlemen's Agreement"]. Major Humphrey
asks continuation of rent controls [Minneapolis]. Sports: speed
skating [St. Paul]; iceboat regatta [Williams Bay, Wis.]; school for
umpires [West Palm Beach, Fla.]

12. Feb. 10, 1948. The funeral of Gandhi at Delhi. General
Eisenhower retires as U. S. Chief of Staff [administers oath to his
successor, General Bradley, in presence of President Truman].
Operation Paradog uses huskies for air rescue work [U. S. Air Forces
in Labrador]. Winter Olympic games [at St. Moritz]; skiing [Henri
Creiller of France]; men's figure skating [Richard Button of U. S.];
women's figure skating [Barbara Ann Scott of Canada].

13. Feb. 13, 1948. Record cold spell. Ohio River frozen; Niagara
Falls frozen. Palestine report: bomb wrecks newspaper building ["The
Palestine Post"]; British blow up surplus ammunition. Truman becomes
president of the Boy Scouts. Doggy bluebloods parade for prizes in
New York show [Westminster Kennel Club]. New Orleans Mardi Gras
[Margaret Truman among visitors]. Viareggio carnival [Italy].
Sports: St. Paul ski jump [Eugene Wilson, champion]; Lipton Cup
yacht race [Miami, Fla.].

14. Feb. 17, 1948. Gov. Dewey raps administration's peace policy.
Ohio River ice breakup. Fighting in Greece. Pope and scientists
[meeting of Papal Academy of Science at Vatican]. Rockefeller
wedding [Palm Beach, Fla.]. Sports from abroad: world table tennis
[Wembley, England]; Cerdan boxing [Paris]; Olympic four-man bobsled
[St. Moritz].

15. Feb. 20, 1948. Chinese troops move. De Valera out as premier [of
Ireland]. Quadruplets [born] in Pennsylvania. Alien baby deported
[to Denmark]. National drive for American brotherhood. Golden Gloves
boxing slugfest [in New York]. Housewife [in Chicago] fasts in fight
on high cost of living.

16. Feb. 24, 1948. President decries reactionaries as "floogie
birds." U. S. food for China. Featherweight helicopter. Carnival in
Rio. Films of Tokyo Rose who "entertained" G. I.'s in Pacific. Ming
leads a dog's life, birthday party and all. Navy wrestling [Brooklyn
Navy YMCA]. Ishpeming [Michigan] ski jumping.

17. Feb. 27, 1948. The tragedy of Palestine; bombing in Jerusalem;
UN crisis over Palestine; Jewish illegal ship [on way to Palestine].
Czechoslovakia taken over by Communists. Truman in Caribbean.
Eisenhower in civvies. Los Angeles hails Freedom Train. 15–1
longshot beats Armed and Assault in Hialeah upset.

18. Mar. 2, 1948. Truman in Cuba [welcomed by U. S. Navy at
Guantanamo]. Belgian bed sheets [returned by U. S. Army]. French
kids get U. S. food [at Billancourt]. Tokyo black market. Aviation:
Navy jet fighter FJ–1 [San Diego]. Hollywood spotlight, premier of
"Call Northside 777." Sports: Hialeah racing; French skiing [at
Superbagneres]; kids boxing [Greenwich Village, New York]; Barbara
Ann Scott [skating champion in Paris].

19. Mar. 5, 1948. Vandenberg urges Marshall Plan to stop another
war. Religion: miracle of Assisi. Bowery derelicts get a chance to
start life anew [with the aid of the Bowery Comeback Association].
Along Broadway: "Naked City" premiere [Sister Kenny, Nick Matsukas,
and Ed Sullivan are present]. Baseball [spring training]. Notre
Dame-NYU basketball. Iron Mountain [Michigan] ski jumping.

20. Mar. 9, 1948. Presidential campaign headlines: Truman announces
his candidacy; MacArthur says he will run if nominated. De Gaulle at
Compiègne. Barbara Ann Scott [in Montreal]. Aviation: gliding meet
[in San Diego, Calif.]. Golden Gloves [tournament at Madison Square
Garden]. New York Yankees training [St. Petersburg, Fla.]; Boston
Braves [at Bradenton, Fla.]; Chicago Cubs [at Los Angeles]. Santa
Anita Derby [won by Salmagundi].

21. Mar. 12, 1948. President [Conzalez Videla] of Chile visits
Antarctic in claimstaking rush. Chicago-Miami plane crashes on
take-off. Michael of Rumania [arrives in New York with former Queen
Helen]. Jan Masaryk [suicide]. J. Arthur Rank [arrives in New York].
De Valera in New York. Alabama's governor, "Kissin' Jim" Folsom,
shows talent. California [University] crew practice. Women's curling
[at Wisconsin's Wauwatosa Club]. U. S. Olympic heroes home [Gretchen
Frazer and Dick Button]. Barbara Ann Scott [welcomed in Ottawa by
Prime Minister Mackenzie King]. Philadelphia Athletics [in Palm
Beach]; Cleveland Indians [in Tucson]; St. Louis Cardinals [in St.
Petersburg].

22. Mar. 16, 1948. Democracies move against the peril of Communism;
Secretary Marshall urges calmness in crisis; ex-Secretary Byrnes
says U. S. must be strong; five European nations sign defense pact
[Great Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg]; Pope
rallies Catholics against Communism. Miners walk out to back Lewis
in demand for pension. General Myers jailed. U. S. and England sign
film pact [Eric Johnston and Harold Wilson]. Film executives get law
degrees [J. Arthur Rank and Spyros Skouras]. Brooklyn Dodgers [at
Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic]. Bowling Congress [Andy
Varipapa and others in Detroit]. Winter water skiing [Seattle,
Wash.].

23. Mar. 19, 1948. Truman asks for armed strength to stop Russia. UN
to investigate Soviet seizure of Czechoslovakia. Communists stage
pompous funeral for Jan Masaryk. Dramatic story of G. I. [Jack
Grunden] shot by Reds in Vienna. Hundreds of U. S. tanks and trucks
shipped to Turkey. "Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!" World premier [at
Sedalia, Mo.]. Irish of New York parade on sunny St. Patrick's Day.
St. Louis beats NYU for invitation basketball title.

24. Mar. 23, 1948. Tornado takes huge toll as it sweeps through
Midwest. Hollywood spotlight: Academy awards [presented to Darryl
Zanuck, Elia Kazan, Loretta Young, Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm,
Edmund Gwenn]. XP–87 jet fighter [Muroc, Calif.]. Jet fighter lands
on carrier ["Boxer" off California coast]. Fashions: evening gowns.
Forty-three star, 14 finish Grand National Steeplechase [Sheila's
Cottage wins at Aintree, England]. Sweepstakes winners.

25. Mar. 26, 1946. UN hears charge of Soviet coup in Czechoslovakia.
Secretary of Defense Forrestal asks 19 to 25 draft. War goods
shipped to Russia arouses controversy in U. S. Jet fighters used in
Air Force tests with buzz bombs [Eglin, Fla.]. Army plane flies
entertainers to Alaskan outpost. College cowboys ride for glory in
[Tucson] Arizona.

26. Mar. 30, 1948. The Nation observes Easter: New York City,
Hollywood Bowl, Death Valley. Congress honors late [General] Billy
Mitchell with special medal. Winds lash Chicago. Navy rocket tests
[California]. Miami Beach hails world premier of the motion picture,
"Sitting Pretty." Deep sea fishing [members of Yale University
expedition at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand]. Speedboat record
[Guy Lombardo at Indian Creek, Miami].

27. Apr. 2, 1948. Italy faces choice of dictatorship or democracy.
Army aims at peace through science and strength. Tornadoes hit air
depot [Tinker Field, Oklahoma City]. Schwab mansion razed [New
York]. Fashions in belts. Phillips-Kentucky basketball [New York].
Jamaica racing.

28. Apr. 6, 1948. U. S., Britain force Reds to back down on Berlin
blockade. Truman signs foreign aid bill. Mountbatten in Burma.
General Spaatz retires. Drew Pearson eats his hat. Speaker of House,
Joe Martin, talks on tax reduction. Governors launch Middle South
Area development plan. Mrs. Roosevelt in England. Princess Ann
selects trousseau. Eisenhower and grandson. Women's National A.A.U.
swim meet at Daytona Beach.

29. Apr. 9, 1948. Stassen sweeps GOP primary in Wisconsin. Bogota
conference. Italian [military] parade. Paul G. Hoffman heads ERP.
Mrs. Roosevelt meets royal family [of Great Britain]. Belgian Prince
Regent visits Truman. Governor Bradford signs $200,000,000 housing
bill. Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts opens springtime show. This baby
elephant [of Dailey Brothers Circus] decides not to be a dumb bunny.
Sydney Cup [Randwick] Australia. Dixie Water Ski Meet [Cypress
Gardens] Florida.

30. Apr. 13, 1948. Army Day in New York. Army Day in Trieste. Red
demonstration in Milan. Four year old musical prodigy [Jerard
Jennings]. Eye filling bathing suits. Novel eye glasses. Masters'
golf tournament [Augusta]. Girls baseball league training. Outboard
motorboat race.

31. Apr. 16, 1948. Dramatic scenes of revolution in Bogota,
Colombia. Crucial election in Italy rouses world interest. London
monument honors memory of Roosevelt [unveiled by Mrs. Roosevelt in
the presence of the royal family and Winston Churchill]. P–84 jet
fighters [Dow Field, Maine]. Cardinal Spellman makes an appeal for
Catholic charities. Sports: Louis-Walcott sign up; Gold Cup regatta
[Miami, Fla.]

32. Apr. 20, 1948. Italian people vote against Communism. Trieste
demonstration [for reunion with Italy]. Bogota after revolution.
Helicopter helps to build church in Grand Canyon. This school
teaches grown-ups the art of baby-sitting. Yanks win baseball opener
[President Truman throws first ball in Washington game].
International Golden Gloves [matches in Chicago]. Citation wins
[Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace].

33. Apr. 23, 1948. Mystery shooting of Walter Reuther, automobile
union leader. Sixteen ERP nations sign [in] Paris. General De Gaulle
[in] Marseilles. Film industry dedicates its new hospital [in Los
Angeles; talks by Jean Hersholt and Mayor Bowron]. U. S. submarines
[sent to reinforce Turkish navy]. U. S. planes reactivated [Kelly
Field, Texas]. Variety Clubs hail Marshall; hear Stassen [make a
speech in Miami Beach]. Dodgers-Giants baseball [New York]. Harness
racing [at] Santa Anita.

34. Apr. 27, 1948. Bogota Conference [finds new quarters after
revolution]. Churchill talks [in London]. Battleship "Texas" [now a
state monument at San Jacinto, honored by Admiral Nimitz and Jesse
Jones]. Testing torpedoes [California]. New York opens national
appeal for needy children of world. Lew Lehr's "new look" for men.
Bankers conference hears L. M. Giannini on U. S. leadership. Sports:
Penn relays [Philadelphia]; British soccer [London].

35. Apr. 30, 1948. Britain's monarchs acclaimed on their Silver
Anniversary, Windsor Castle: Order of the Garter ceremony for
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Red post-election
demonstration in Milan is a fiasco. Public works: Puerto Rico dam.
The feminine world: Mrs. Helen Hines, American mother of 1948; Mrs.
John Cole, 27–year-old mother of 10. Sports: jockey [John Longden]
sets record; auto helldrivers [Jimmy Martin's crew in Riverside,
Calif.]; shooting the rapids [at Eugene, Oregon.]

36. May 4, 1948. Eisenhower holds press conference at Columbia
University. Film flashes: New York loyalty parade; Japan Eucharistic
Procession; Winchester, Virginia Apple Blossom Festival; Burned-out
Laramie helped by Little Marshall Plan. Fashions in [cloth of] gold.
Citation wins Kentucky Derby.

37. May 7, 1948. Republicans battle for presidential nomination.
Taft-Stassen [contest] in Ohio. Dewey in Oregon. President Truman
speaks about housing and family welfare. The news ticker: Long
Island gas blast; tornadoes wreak havoc in St. Clair, W. Va.;
General Wainwright honored by Masons; spring fever hits chimpanzees,
and they clean-up. Sports: U. S. prepares for Olympics [at Penn
State College]. Men gymnasts and women divers [perform].

38. May 11, 1948. Railroads seized by U. S. as strike threatens
nation. News of the nation: Norman Thomas nominated [by Socialists];
Navy obstacle course [Dunking Drill preliminary to summer cruise].
Something new in baby shows: China "dolls" come to life [in
Chinatown Baby Parade at San Francisco]. Mexican sweepstake winners.
Sports: Goodall Golf Tournament in New York; all-Navy boxing [in San
Diego, Calif.]; women wrestlers in Boston.

39. May 14, 1948. Churchill in Holland. Secretary Marshall on U.
S.-Russia talks. Personalities in the news: Mr. Skouras gets $10,000
check [for United Nations Appeal for Children]. Ex-Premier [Jonas
Cernius] of Lithuania [in Newark]. Reds, vets fight at New York
premiere of "Iron Curtain." Airborne troops fill the skies in war
maneuvers [at Camp Campbell, Ky.]. Sports: French fencing; woman
jockeys; British boxing.

40. May 18, 1948. Rebirth of Jewish state of Israel marked by war:
Haganah takes city of Haifa; N. Y. rally hails Jewish state. Italian
president [Luigi Einaudi, congratulated by Premier de Gasperi after
election]; Princess Elizabeth [of England] in Paris; President
Truman makes prediction [of Democratic victory]. Gay parade hails
Cotton Carnival in Memphis. Sports: Citation wins Preakness;
Celebrities golf [Washington]; Olympic skaters.

41. May 21, 1948. Dewey and Stassen debate outlawing of Communism.
Jewish state proclaimed at Tel Aviv. Free election held in the
American zone of Korea. Flower fashions. Sports: Girl gymnasts from
Sweden; Monaco auto race [the Grand Prix]; dynamite girl.

42. May 25, 1948. Dewey beats Stassen in Oregon [primary to select
Republican convention delegates]. President Truman at Girard College
[Philadelphia]. Father of the year [Clarkson F. Warden of Ann Arbor,
Mich.]. Dutch palace burns [at The Hague]. Navy jet fighters [on
carrier Saipan]. 15,000 boys stage great spectacle in Scout-O-Rama.
Dutch celebration hails tulip time in Holland, Michigan. Morris and
Essex Dog Show [Madison, N. J.]. Sports: Roosevelt Raceway trotting;
women's auto race.

43. May 28, 1948. UN faces crisis over war in Palestine. New York
rally hears appeals to help needy children [General Marshall and
Chairman Spyros Skouras speak for UN's American Overseas Aid].
Princess Elizabeth at race-track in Paris. Jesse James [of Lawton,
Oklahoma, claims to be former outlaw]. Canadian oil well on rampage
[Leduc oil field in Alberta]. "Green Grass of Wyoming" has world
premiere in [Lancaster] Ohio. Boys Town is final resting place for
Father Flanagan. Hogan wins PGA Golf Tourney at St. Louis.

44. June 1, 1948. Navy sinks famed A-bomb warship "Salt Lake City."
Chinese elections [at Nanking; Chiang Kai-shek elected President].
Cardinal Spellman [Eamon De Valera, and Monsignor Sheen] in
Australia. New Swiss Guards for Vatican. Drew Pearson, Father of the
Year [decorated by General Eisenhower]. New-born bear cubs learn
about life. Sports: Chinese track meet [in Shanghai]; Louis and
Walcott training [for heavyweight championship].

45. June 4, 1948. 100,000 homeless as Columbia River goes on
rampage. Palestine: Tel Aviv bombed by air. India: Gandhi's assassin
on trial. Marshall [Plan ship arrives at Genoa] Italy. President
Truman observes Memorial Day [at Arlington National Cemetery].
Byrnes and Vandenberg honored at Columbia University. Indianapolis
auto race [won by Mauri Rose]. German boxing [championship retained
by Hein Ten Hoff].

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