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30. Dec. 2, 1948. UN news: [East and West clash in Paris over
outlawing of atom bomb]. Red fliers [who fled Russia are interviewed
in Austria]. Levi Jackson [first Negro captain of the Yale football
team]. Santa Claus [stops off in Canada]. The latest in cameras: the
smallest camera; the fastest camera. The "Wee-Bee" [the world's
smallest piloted plane, makes test run in California]. Tropical ice
harvest [salt harvested in Puerto Rico]. Pitt upsets Penn State.

31. Dec. 6, 1948. Army-Navy game of the year. [President Truman
among spectators at Philadelphia as Navy ties score]. Cornell upsets
Penn. Tulane swamps LSU. Nation-wide news: Santa Claus arrives;
Variety Clubs honor Boys' Town Founder [unveil a statue of Father
Flanagan].

32. Dec. 9, 1948. Battle for Suchow [Nationalists abandon city]. Key
elections split Berlin. Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek arrives in U. S. to
seek aid for China. Former Queen Wilhelmina plants trees. President
Truman and Secretary Marshall meet with America's European recovery
experts in Washington. The "Kitty Hawk" comes home [to Smithsonian
Institute]. The two-way [brake] propeller. Browns beat '49ers. Water
skiing at Cypress Gardens, Fla.

33. Dec. 13, 1948. The Collier's All-America [football team selected
by top college coaches. Washington press corps honors capitol's
outstanding fathers and daughters, including Harry Truman and
daughter Margaret. WAC director Colonel Mary Hallaren becomes first
woman officer sworn into the regular Army. Whittaker Chambers
reveals microfilms said to be top-secret State Department documents.
The people of France thank America for the Friendship Train.]
London's worst fog. Livestock championship [49th International
Livestock Exposition at Chicago].

34. Dec. 16, 1948. Reds routed in Berlin elections. Americans flee
Red tide in China. [U. S. marines sail into Tsingtao. President
Truman welcomes Cuba's President Prio. Barkley and Warren meet in
Los Angeles. Doak Walker is named year's outstanding football
player.] Unusual automobiles [the Phibian and two-in-one car from
Italy]. T-men nab passer of "near perfect" bills [in Baltimore].
Wild geese. Great American: Clara Barton.

35. Dec. 20, 1948. Christmas, 1948. The Boys' Choir of New York's
St. Thomas Church sings "Silent Night." In Europe, Japan, Canada,
and Mexico cameramen record Christmas spirit of Peace on Earth, Good
Will Toward Men. Citation still winning in California [Tanforan
Handicap]. Bills vs. Colts [for AAC's eastern championship].

36. Dec. 23, 1948. Florida fashions. 2,900 Chinese die in sea
tragedy. UN ends Paris session. Americas investigate Costa Rica
invasion. [Cardinal Spellman gives party for] kids at Christmas.
Endurance flyers. Great events: Washington crosses the Delaware,
Dec. 25, 1776.

37. Dec. 27, 1948. First pictures of royal baby [Prince Charles of
Edinburgh]. 33 saved in Pacific rescue. People in the news: [Alger
Hiss indicted for perjury; General De Gaulle outlines program;
Barbara Ann Scott makes professional debut in New York]. Year's
biggest snow blankets East coast. America remembers Kitty Hawk
flight. Football: Browns-Bills; Eagles-Cards.

38. Dec. 30, 1948. Airlift Christmas [Christmas gifts for Berlin
children]. People in the news: [President Truman promotes Colonel
Landry; General Bradley honored by chief of Italy's General Staff;
Italy's President Einaudi pays official visit to Vatican; Madame
Schiaparelli shows hat creations]. Teen-age fashions. [Miniature]
clockwork community [displayed in San Francisco]. Marines vs.
soldiers [interservice football].

39. Jan. 3, 1949. Race to rescue airmen on icecap. Berlin keeps warm
[during blockade]. Shanghai gold rush. Truman at home. Paris ski
fashions. [Michelangelo's] "David" comes to U. S. Aussies a-weigh
[weight-lifting championship].

40. Jan. 6, 1949. News of 1948 in review.

41. Jan. 10, 1949. Bowl games: Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl.
81st Congress opens. Rescued airmen arrive in New York. "Airlift
follies" for Berlin GI's. Puerto Rico installs 1st elected governor.

42. Jan. 13, 1949. President reports to 81st Congress. Tornado
levels Arkansas town. Royalty [Edward VIII of England and Leopold
III of Belgium] on the Riviera. Germans ask for world citizenship.
Ships in the news: [Queen Mary repaired in England; German liner,
New York, raised at Kiel]. Boxing: Golden Gloves. Great American:
Alexander Hamilton.

43. Jan. 17, 1949. Marshall resigns; Acheson named Secretary of
State. Miami air show. Strange news from abroad [hobble skirts in
Paris; London plumber atop a Piccadilly statue]. People in the news:
[Egypt pays tribute to assassinated Premier Nokrashy Pasha;
Yoshihisa Kuzu freed as General MacArthur grants amnesty to 19;
barbecue follows inauguration of Florida's governor, Fuller Warren].
Photographers pick a queen [Jeanne Crow].

44. Jan. 20, 1949. Senate hears Dean Acheson. Caronia ends maiden
voyage. Snow blankets California. France sends U. S. "Gratitude
Train". Moppet melodrama [refugee children in Germany see first
puppet show]. Sports [25th Silver Skates races in New York;
basketball team of St. Louis University vs. Long Island University].
Great American: John Hancock.

45. Jan. 24, 1949. Air news [Air Force's XF–11 climbs at three miles
a minute; Navy's Ram-jet Robot sets record; Bill Odom sets new
mark]. Reds go on trial [Federal Court in New York]. [Planes] rescue
starving cattle. Paris hats for 1949. "Miss March of Dimes". Bitsy
bow-bows [Mexican chihuahua show in Miami]. Norge ski meet.

46. Jan. 27, 1949. The inauguration of President Truman. Includes
pre-inauguration festivities, scenes from the inauguration of
Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, and Franklin Roosevelt, the inaugural
parade, and the President's address.

47. Jan. 31, 1949. People in the news: Dean Acheson sworn in as
Secretary of State; French Foreign Minister Schumann honored at
London reception; Paris hails Winston Churchill; Mildred Gillars
[Axis Sally] starts trial for treason. The [Italian] car that flies.
New York critics make film awards. Diamond fashions. Ice sports:
[International Championships for iceboats at Fox Lake, Ill; Sonja
Henie in ice revue in New York].

48. Feb. 3, 1949. Overseas news: in Berlin, West installs anti-Red
government and coal is located under the city; in Monte Carlo,
Monacan army has ceremonial review; in Marseilles, construction
begins on skyscraper on stilts. Koala bear sanctuary [Australia].
United States-Canada pulp project opens. Bathing suits of metal.
Sports: baseball [Rip Sewell's Florida baseball school; Lou Boudreau
signs two-year contract]; water ski jumpers [Cypress Gardens, Fla.]
Great American: Thomas Alva Edison.

49. Feb, 7, 1949. Report from Israel. Clipper survives mid-air
crash. Three-mile parade spurs March of Dimes [Los Angeles].
Parliament opens in Canada. Sports: [Millrose Games; Down Hill Ski
Championships in the French Alps; Santa Anita Maturity].

50. Feb. 10, 1949. New York hails "Gratitude Train." Fashions in
color. A U. S. soldier is buried at home [in Japan]. 19 nations map
unity in Asia. Sports: [Marcel Choisnet sets gliding record in
French Alps; trotting races; skiers at Mount Blanc, France, compete
for European ski jumping crown]. Great Americans quiz: Benjamin
Franklin.

51. Feb. 14, 1949. "Gratitude Train" starts historic U. S. journey.
People in the news: Norway's Foreign Minister Lange arrives in
America; two escaped Russian fliers arrive in Washington; General
MacArthur welcomes Secretary Royall in Tokyo; National Conference of
Christians and Jews honors Irene Dunne and Ned Depinet. Last days of
Nanking. Biggest airliner [92–ton Constitution] hops continent.
Sports: rodeo championship [Palm Springs, Calif.]

52. Feb. 17, 1949. Nation protests Mindszenty sentence. People in
the news: General Eisenhower, on leave of absence from Columbia
University, is welcomed in Washington; Mrs. Truman sees new
portraits of husband and daughter; General Marshall returns to
Washington; Chinese nationalist government transfers Japanese
prisoners of war; Governor Dewey gives his version of Republican
defeat. Paris gloves. A special feature [an incident in life of
George Washington, in observance of National Brotherhood Week].
Sports: ski jumping [Leavenworth, Wash., and Duluth, Minn.]

53. Feb. 21, 1949. Washington welcomes Canadian Premier [Louis St.
Laurent]. Hitler's chancellory blown up by Russians. Kids' pet show
[Madison Square Garden]. Flying Wing sets record. School days in the
pyramids [Step Pyramid is classroom for Cairo University students].
Sports: [in New York, Holland's Slykhuis captures Baxter Mile;
American Bowling Congress opens in Atlantic City; St. Paul's Winter
Carnival]. A special feature [in cooperation with the American Heart
Association].

54. Feb. 24, 1949. Greatest air show [at Andrews Field, Md., to show
Congress where Air Force money goes]. New tire: no tube, no blowout.
People in the news: Holland's Prince Bernhard and daughters vacation
in Swiss Alps; Berlin's Mayor Reuter goes to Paris; General De
Gaulle's RPF Party holds convention [in Lille]. Gratitude Train
speeds west. Sports: [slow motion pictures of Fanny Blankers-Koen;
Westminster Kennel Club Show in New York]. Great Americans quiz:
Daniel Webster.

55. Feb. 28, 1949. Israel's new government meets for first time.
Overseas news: [London charwomen request raise; in Berlin, Western
Allies tighten their counter-blockade against Russians; workmen get
the city of Viareggio, Italy, ready for carnival]. Navy blasts giant
hangar [Houma, La.]. Pets in the news: [pet sparrow in Los Angeles;
flea actors in Paris; uncooked rooster, chef's specialty in Tours,
Paris. Sports: surf board riders off Mokopuu Point in Hawaii;
motorcycle on skis at Liberty, N. Y.; winter games in
Czechoslovakia].

56. Mar. 3, 1949. Israeli president inaugurated. Reds deport Anna
Strong as spy. Fritz Kuhn freed by German court. Chicago photogs
pick a queen. West Coast hails Gratitude Train. Pope denounces
Mindszenty trial. Santa Anita derby. World's bobsled titles. Ski
jumping championships.

57. Mar. 7, 1949. Berlin: giant parade marks Red Army Day. Labor
Party wins key British election. Mauna Loa volcano on the rampage.
POW's freed in Holy Land truce. Air news: Caroline Mars sets
passenger mark, 222 mph; the Navy Mauler, a flying arsenal. Nassau:
cliff diving in the Bahamas. Fort Myer, Va.: Army's world boxing
championships. Iron Mountain, Mich.: five record leaps in one ski
meet. Santa Anita handicap. San Francisco: "Merci train" arrives.

58. Mar. 10, 1949. B–50 flies around the world, non-stop. Reds fail
to stop Churchill speech. Army convicts 5 in Germany spy ring. DP's
cross U. S. on long voyage home. Mardi Gras merriment reigns
supreme. French beach styles have a new twist. Bavaria: western zone
ski championships. Do you remember?—Styles of 1927.

59. Mar. 14, 1949. UN Security Council votes on Israel. Blockaded
Reds quit U. S. zone. Netherlands: dramatic pictures of rescue at
sea. New York: FBI arrests Red spy suspects. Washington: Johnson
takes over from Secretary Forrestal. Tokyo: another Red flyer
deserts to U. S. zone. Winnipeg, Man.: Canadian university honors
Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt. New York: press fetes Marshall and Acheson,
Washington: 75–passenger stratocruiser christened. Boston Braves hit
spring training trail. World champion Indians open '49 season.
West's best slug it out in Golden Gloves.

60. Mar. 17, 1949. Views of the airlift to Berlin. Axis Sally found
guilty of treason. Train robbers captured in gun battle. Bill Odom
sets flivver plane record. Rollins College honors President Truman.
Ice breaks, floods threaten midwest. Brazilian bark visits Golden
Gate. Russia returns lend-lease cruiser. U.S.S. Tarawa heads for
moth balls. Joe Louis gets himself a new job. Whitefish, Mont.: the
downhill skiing championships. Great American quiz: Daniel Boone.

61. Mar. 21, 1949. U. S. parades armed might in Germany. Truman and
Vinson relax in the [Florida] sun. Egypt restores fabulous Karnak
temple. New Jap police force marches on review. Brownsville, Tex.:
two nations hail film premiere. Parisian lives as though today were
1800. Paris spring fashions. New York: kids battle for boxing
crowns. Australia: dramatic wild horse roundup. Daytona Beach, Fla.:
national motorcycle championship race. Pittsburgh Pirates start
training.

62. Mar. 24, 1949. $1,000,000 Oakland pier fire. Eight Atlantic Pact
nations meet. S.S. Haifa enters Israel-U. 5. service. Cruiser leased
to Russia rejoins Navy. "Orphan airlift" flies 67 to new homes.
British workers start U. S. study tour. Navy vet builds push-button
paradise. American judo girl rolls her own. "Hobby horses" star in
colorful derby. Great American quiz: Stephen Decatur.

63. Mar. 28, 1949. Acheson praises Atlantic Pact. France mourns
General Giraud. Hirohito opens Japanese Parliament. British fleet in
Mediterranean war games, Truman honors press; press honors Truman.
Foreign press picks best films of 1948. Seattle: motorcycle racing
in the mud. New York: basketball; national invitation finals. Do you
remember?—Treaty of Versailles. Nation hails $20,000,000 [Houston]
Texas hotel.

64. Mar. 31, 1949. Churchill arrives in U. S. Shostakovitch and Reds
in New York for conference. In the news: French Army Chief of Staff;
Lord Mayor of Berlin; Greek King's Honor Guard. Allies ban Soviet
money in Berlin. Canada trains paratroops for Arctic. Lavish evening
gowns from France. Racing: French thoroughbreds in action [at
Chantilly]. New York: eastern college finals in basketball.

65. Apr. 4, 1949. Filmdom gives Oscars for 1948's best. 66–1 shot
wins Grand National. Washington: Churchill visits wartime U. S.
colleagues, Argentina celebrates new constitution. Fleet Admiral
Leahy, retiring, decorated. Teenaged girl heroine gets a dream
house. Johnson sworn in as Defense Secretary. Seattle:
intercollegiate basketball championship. New York: meet the
sweepstakes winners.

66. Apr, 7, 1949. Europe's top diplomats here; Foreign Minister
Ernest Bevin; Premier Paul-Henri Spaak; Gromyko here for UN
Assembly. Annual French tidal wave arrives on time. Spring is sheer
beauty to sheep ranchers. Vacation fashions in the Bahamas. Golden
Gloves: East-West finals. Paris: world's toughest sport—Rugby
football. Cypress Gardens, Fla.: women's champ is a water-ski
wizard. Great Americans quiz: Robert E. Peary. Bing Crosby asks help
for cancer drive.

67. Apr. 11, 1949. Atlantic Pact signed. Churchill [speaks] on
Russia [at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston].
Daytona Beach, Fla.: National AAU swim championships. New York:
All-star basketball; East nips West.

68. Apr. 14, 1949. UN General Assembly opens [Flushing Meadow, N.
Y.]. In color: Hawaiian fashions. Pope celebrates 50th year as a
priest. FBI catches $880,000 runaway banker. Armed Forces parade on
"Army Day." The lights go on again in London. Four-alarm tenement
fire in Harlem. Downhill skiing; Harriman Cup races, Boston;
National AAU boxing championships.

69. Apr. 18, 1949. The tragedy of Kathy Fiscus. Church explodes; 6
dead, 47 hurt. Key West, Fla.: U. S. joint chiefs of staff meet.
Burbank, Calif.: France honors Harry M. Warner. Britain's Bevin
sails for home. Ex-Reds fete Greek King and Queen. Clay reviews U.
S. might in Germany. Sydney, Australia: an Easter feature;
rock-a-bye rabbit. A dog plays the pinball machines. Sam Snead wins
Masters Golf crown. Annapolis: Navy kids set pace in boxing classic.

70. Apr. 21, 1949. Quake rocks Northwest. Truman marks fourth year
as president. Israeli President arrives in U. S. Delaware Bay: ships
burn after collision in fog. Norway launches new liner in Holland.
Paris introduces the "hobo handbag." Rome: blindfolded boxers dance
in the dark. Hemlines are up on Dior's newest look. Europe's kids
say thanks for CARE.

71. Apr. 25, 1949. Flivver fliers smash world endurance mark. Easter
1949: sunrise service in the Hollywood Bowl; GI's and Germans attend
first joint rites [in Berlin]; record crowds jam the Easter parade
[in New York City]. Do you remember?—1890's Easter parade. Liberty
Bend, Mo.: engineers move mighty Missouri River. Ex-Premier Reynaud
arrives in U. S. Syracuse "miracle" draws big crowds. New York:
Palestine mediator home to report. San Juan, P. R.: world's largest
trade school opens. Pitcher Truman opens baseball season.

72. Apr. 28, 1949. The Irish Republic is born. Secretary Hull leaves
the hospital. Yankee Stadium: plaque unveiled to immortal "Babe."
Egypt's royalty opens "world's fair." New bill keeps aid flowing to
Europe. Truman lauds bond drive "forty-niners." Square dance craze
sweeps Japan. Berlin: 1383–flight day sets airlift record. Newhall,
Calif.: flying jalopies in race thriller. Great American quiz: James
Madison.

73. May 2, 1949. Shelled British ships reach Shanghai. The Trumans
are hosts to the Weizmanns. Acheson asks for one and one-half
billion dollars for arms for Europe. King George meets Dominion
premiers. Shirley Temple celebrates 21st birthday. Acrobats defy
death 13 floors over city. New Brunswick, N. J.: 96 men paint a
house in two and one-half minutes. Gruelling Paris-Roubaix bicycle
race. Los Angeles: "hell drivers" star in thrill show. Derby
favorite wins Wood Memorial.

74. May 5, 1949. Atlantic Pact before Senate. Texas housewife named
mother of the year. Kalavrites, Greece: Greek King and Queen visit
martyred town. New York: Diplomats discuss ending Berlin blockade.
Fullerton, Calif.: Endurance fliers end 6 weeks in the air. He
should have stood in bed! National AAU women's swim meet. Australia:
They ax for it; chopper championships.

75. May 9, 1949. Evacuation of Shanghai. Steve Early returns to
public life. Frankfurt: Allied governors of Germany meet. Princess
Margaret Rose goes on vacation. Winchester, Va.: Shenandoah Apple
Blossom Festival. Former DP's build useful lives in U. S. National
AAU gymnastic championships. Daredevils afloat; water ski maniacs.
Do you remember?—New York World's Fair. Loyalty marchers outstrip
Reds on May Day. Chicago to shine in "forty-nine."

76. May 12, 1949. Four powers agree to lift Berlin blockade. India's
ambassador arrives. Dewey off on European tour. Academy winner Jane
Wyman sails. Weizmann starts back to Israel. Kansas City, Mo.:
"Opportunity bond drive" gets big start. Israel's first anniversary
hailed in U. S. Jap firemen put out big Tokyo blaze. 500 yachts in
Pacific "shakedown" race. Durocher, cleared, is back in uniform.
Miami Beach: fancy new twists to fancy diving.

77. May 16, 1949. 16–to–1 shot [Ponder] wins Kentucky Derby
thriller. Shanghai under siege. Amazing pictures of Mt. Vesuvius'
crater. Princess Margaret goes sailing at Capri. The Collins quads.
Variety Clubs honor Herbert Hoover. Fire razes $5,000,000 Hollywood
park. Wenatchee apple blossom festival.

78. May 19, 1949. Berlin blockade lifted. Israel wins United Nations
membership. Parades in Israel mark first anniversary. General Ike
[Eisenhower] back on duty [in Washington] after illness. UN mediator
for Palestine honored. Mahatma Gandhi's son arrives in U. S.
Secretary Snyder's daughter aids bond drive. Miami: model art
students go to work. Quantico, Va.: Marines in air-ground maneuvers.
Great American quiz: Grover Cleveland. Memphis Cotton Carnival.

79. May 23, 1949. Holland Tunnel blast. Berlin hails the end of the
blockade. Dewey in Europe on vacation. Washington: Press Club honors
women of the year. Hirohito and Empress hail Jap anniversary. The
Vatican's Swiss guard takes its oath. Seals find haven on remote
Pacific Isle. Paris: burlap becomes latest cloth for milady. Daring
gown makes Paris a "whistle stop". Capot wins Preakness in
photo-finish.

80. May 26, 1949. General Clay gets hero's welcome. Washington:
President of Brazil in U. S. McCloy named U. S. boss in Germany.
F.D.R., Jr., elected to Congress. Clear record snows from Pacific
peaks. Thousands of sheep cross Grand Coulee. Washington: Newsboys
turn opportunity bond salesmen. Independence, Mo.: 'Forty-niners
parade opens bond drive. Geneva: Swiss acrobat becomes
steeple-chaser. Cypress Gardens, Fla.: latest in sport thrills—skim
boats. International Golden Gloves boxing. Great American quiz:
James Lawrence.

81. May 30, 1949. Strikers riot against Reds in Berlin. Paris: Big
Four foreign ministers meet. Air Force latest is needle-nosed F–90.
308 passengers fly on one plane. Bermuda: these spring hats are
really flowery. Push-button special: good night nurse. P.A.L. boxing
championships. Fanny Blankers-Koen in U. S. debut.

82. June 2, 1949. Forestal buried at Arlington. Big Four ministers
open Paris talks. Fort Bragg, N. C.: exercise Tarheel—assault by
air. Queen Fredericka visits Greek orphans. Queen Juliana helps
rebuild Rotterdam. Pretty and practical outdoor fashions. DiMaggio
tests heel—it still hurts. All-Navy boxing championships. Great
American quiz: Theodore Roosevelt.

83. June 6, 1949. Nation honors U. S. dads: mediator Bunche is
father of year; greatgrandad has family of 108; seven times a father
in 3–1/2 years. Los Angeles: man survives 240 degrees in "hotbox"
test. Wales: helicopter crash. Crystal Lake, Ill.; first look at
tomorrow's trailers. Boston, Mass.; canine campus; every dog a
gentleman. Michigan State coeds sponsor push-car thriller. Oklahoma
A & M, the roughest rodeo of them all.

84. June 9, 1949. 500–mile auto race classic at Indianapolis. Sam
Snead wins PGA crown. Nagasaki: Hirohito visits A-bombed city. Alger
Hiss Perjury trial opens. Rita [Hayworth] and Aly [Khan] are
married. King George honors Welsh guard. General Clay retires from
Army. D-day newsmen to retrace invasion. British film awards. Styles
go slats-happy.

85. June 13, 1949. 16 nations honor Marshall. English Derby photo
finish. Star-studded golf match [National Celebrities Golf
Tournament at Washington]. DP's—then and now. Margaret Truman is
bridesmaid. Kensington, Eng.: new honor for Winston Churchill.
English lords hear Danny Kaye. Atlantic City: Miss National Press
Photog. Toronto: Canada opens international trade fair.

86. June 16, 1949. West Point on parade. National Motorcycle
Championship [Richmond, Va.] $1,000,000 fire razes Havana
waterfront. Normandy: D-day plus five years. Rockford, Ill.: spills
mark summer ski meet. Nagasaki: Christian rites held in Japan.
Bermuda: latest honeymoon fashions. Big Bear Lake, Calif.: here's
how not to fly. Great events quiz: Bunker Hill.

87. June 20, 1949. Truman [makes address at Little Rock, Ark., and
says] "We have turned the tide." Capot wins Belmont Stakes.
Middlecoff wins National Open. London: King and Princess "troop the
color." Baltimore harbor: test of fastest lifeboat rescue rig. New
York City: national sewing contest winners. Saranac Lake, N. Y.:
Variety Clubs take over hospital. Australia shows champion sheet.

88. June 23, 1949. West wins in Trieste elections. F.D.R., Jr.,
takes oath in Congress. Frankie Frisch takes over the Chicago Cubs.
Jap crown prince takes up tennis. Manus Island, million dollar junk
pile. Latest in hat fashion, kid's style. Rye Beach, N.Y.: pick
national "Swim for health" queen. Miami: trouble a-bruin; bear
wrestling. Bridgehampton, N. Y.: sports car road racing. Great
cities of America: San Francisco.

89. June 27, 1949. Tense Paris hears De Gaulle. Gordon Gray sworn in
as Army Secretary. Detroit: world's largest American flag unfurled.
Australia: happily married for seventy-two years. Kid artists show
their stuff in London. Ludlow, Mass.: New England's tallest chimney
blasted. Chantilly Castle, France, backdrop for fashion. Los
Angeles: machine age catches up with beach combers. Martinsburg, W.
Va.: airplane acrobats stunt to defy death. Washington: mammoth mat
match mangles many maulers.

90. June 30, 1949. Big Four talks end; Acheson home. Germany:
poultry city—5,000 babies born each day. Paris designers run wild on
bike fashions. Mrs. Mesta named Minister to Luxembourg. Bao-Dai
returns to be Emperor of Viet-Nam, Indo-China. Comedian Milton Berle
goes to Hollywood. Charles whips Walcott for Louis' crown.
Bellingham, Wash.: Indians race war canoes for world title. Crack-up
champions in circus of thrills.

91. July 4, 1949. Poughkeepsie Regatta. Tennis: Riggs vs. Budge.
Governor of Florida marries a California girl. Ex-GI weds the
Kaiser's granddaughter. China dolls compete in kids' beauty show.
Asbury Park, N. J.: National Marbles Championships. Pittsfield,
Mass.: man-made lightning—15,000,000 volts. Round-world plane can
land anywhere, too. Marlton, N. J.: new paraplane comes almost
straight down. Do you remember?—Blizzard of 1947.

92. July 7, 1949. Canadian Liberals sweep key election. T-men seize
$100,000 in bogus bills. Shelton, Conn.: home, sweet cave;
underground house. Cotton mill town springs up in Sahara. 10,000 at
square dance in Central Park. Paris: thrill-packed finish marks the
Grand Prix. Japan's no. 1 swimmer breaks world mark. Czechoslovakia:
canoes battle big rapids in 100–mile race. Great American quiz:
Custer's last stand.

93. July 11, 1949. Judith Coplon is guilty. Katonah, N. Y.:
rubber-band catapult makes yard an airport. Australia ravaged by
worst floods. Notre Dame University honors Irene Dunne. A Chinese
orphan's Cinderella story. Baseball star faces girl who shot him.
Behind the newsreel camera. Tie triumph; four-in-hand fashions.
Puerto Rico: spectacular water-skiing by torchlight.

94. July 14, 1949. MacArthur reviews biggest parade [in Tokyo].
Schroeder wins at Wimbledon. Jap war prisoners home from Russian
camps. European Union stages first fleet maneuvers. Housing problem:
Congress moves. General Patton is honored by France. Tokyo Rose goes
on trial for treason. Chicago: Paul Bunyan comes back at railroad
fair. San Francisco Chinatown's beauties. Detroit: Gold Cup
speedboat racing classic. Lake Placid: sun-baked ski jumpers.

95. July 18, 1949. Jury fails to decide on Hiss; Chambers speaks.
London: troops called in dock strike. Danny Kaye safe in air
accident. Israel: Rebury Jews killed by Nazis. Senator Johnson asks
movie tax cut. New York: girl warms up for Channel swim. Lady
wrestlers waltz in Vienna. Los Angeles: Machine Age restaurant.

96. July 21, 1949. All-star Baseball [National Leaguers vs. American
Leaguers at Brooklyn]. Air crashes kill 79 [near Bombay, India, and
Los Angeles], "No depression"—Truman. First combined fleet maneuvers
off Europe. Freeport, L. I.: speedboat "soapbox derby." Cowboy
fashions for kids.

97. July 25, 1949. Bonnie Prince Charlie poses with his parents.
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.: U. S. chiefs of staff take a
"vacation." President signs biggest housing bill. Los Angeles: Italy
honors Harry M. Warner. Benthoscope—diving bell on wheels. Navy's
newest for submarine rescues. Paris lights up for Bastille Day.
Spectacular fire razes Munich studio. Four-year-old is a real water
skeezix. Hollywood Gold Cup, world's richest race. Westbury, N. Y.:
photo finish in national pacing derby.

98. July 28, 1949. Jackie Robinson answers Paul Robeson. New York:
15,000 Lions parade down Fifth Avenue. Chicago: 15,000 Shriners
parade, hear Truman. Ejector seat "shoots" pilot from plane. Ernie
Pyle is buried in Hawaii. Seattle: plane hits houses; seven killed.
Navy fires new rockets 65 miles up. Hot fashions; summer furs from
Paris. Atlantic City: spectacular and gala aquashow.

99. Aug. 1, 1949. Truman signs Atlantic Pact. Newfoundland opens its
new parliament. Parade marks Israel's first Army Day. Royal garden
party at Buckingham Palace. Vienna zoo: international monkey
business. International honeymoon at Niagara Falls. Great cities of
America: Chicago. Minneapolis; Aquatennial; aquabatic aquabelles.
Navy fliers practice football at sea. Martin Lagood, Md.: national
water ski championships.

100. Aug. 4, 1949. Private Rodger Young is buried at home. Churchill
opens Tory election campaign. Bernard Baruch comes home from
England. Gary Cooper made "governor" of Montana. New "Ile de France"
ends maiden voyage. France: month-long, 3,000–mile bike race. San
Antonio, Tex.: Mayors race in soap box derby. Vienna: international
motorcycle championships.

101. Aug. 8, 1949. Navy plane hits airliner [near Fort Dix, N. J.]
Acheson asks arms for Europe. Germany: U. S. chiefs of staff map
defense. Truman appoints Clark and McGrath. Dallas: one-year-old
high diving star. Helicopter serves flagpole sitter. Dog and duck in
summer romance. Beauty contest for tall girls only. Italian
hairdressers go wild. Chicago: railroad hat is strangest of year.
Ponder takes Arlington Classic. Great Americans: John Paul Jones.

102. Aug. 11, 1949. Marshall speaks on the cold war. Exclusive films
of spectacular fire [in San Francisco]. Honor heroes of Berlin
airlift. Hill shoots Niagara's rapids. Washington: "Boy State" takes
over government. Hoover marks his 74th birthday. Fashions for white
collar girls. Pooches on parade in Miami.

103. Aug. 15, 1949. Philippine president on way to see Truman. Eight
feet seven, he's world's tallest man. Want-ad romances climaxes in
double wedding. Britain's "Comet," world's first jet airliner.
Sicily: fisherman in thrilling tuna treasure hunt. Cardston, Alta.:
treaty money; Canada pays off the Indians. Hollywood: new coast
business opens with a splash. Norwalk, Conn.: outboard races turn
into bank-up classic.

104. Aug, 18, 1949. Ecuador earthquake. President signs bill to
unify armed forces. U. S. Ambassador to China is called home.
Philippines President addresses Congress. Herbert Hoover hailed on
75th birthday. Coast Guard celebrates its 159th birthday. Mangrum
edges Snead in All-American golf. Miss Tilly, outsider, wins
Hambletonian. Do you remember?—Corbett-Courtenay fight.

Volume 21, 1949.

1. Aug. 22, 1949. First free German elections. Five nations test
Britain's air defenses. Ottawa: Canadian lab; baby, it's cold
inside. Ocean City, N. J.: sleepiest baby parade in modern history.
Ruins provide swimming hole for Berlin kids. Germany: International
auto championship races. Red Bank, N. J.: National Sweepstakes Speed
Boat Regatta. Akron: All-American Soap Box Derby.

2. Aug. 25, 1949. Congress probes five-percenters. Council of Europe
meets in Strasbourg. Bridges pickets in Hawaii dock strike. Barton
sets depth record 4,500 feet down. Bradley becomes head of joint
staff chiefs. Collins sworn in as Army Chief of Staff. Navy, Marines
in mass helicopter maneuver. Washington: airmen fly donkeys in weird
baseball game. Los Angeles sheriff's championship rodeo.

3. Aug. 29, 1949. Bernarr Macfadden marks 81st birthday with
parachute jump. British jet refuels in mid-air. Double-hulled ship
can't rock or roll. Style prediction: fur flurry in California.
Baseball hails Connie Mack. Cuban forced back in English Channel
swim. Horse-jumping record set in Netherlands. Japanese set world
marks in AAU swim.

4. Sept. 1, 1949. Rescue Ecuador 'quake victims. "Father of Zionism"
reburied in Israel. Miami: Navy's "hurricane hunters" in action.
Vast forest fires raging in France. Wedding bells; couple married
under water. National AAU women's swimming meet. Reno, Nev.: ancient
autos in mountain race thriller. Miami: cops on parade; motorcycle
miracles.

5. Sept. 5, 1949. Hurricane lashes Florida. Philadelphia: American
Legion meets; hears Truman. Austrian POW's back from Russia.
Roughest rodeo, the Pendleton round-up. Westwood Village, Calif.:
girls' rifle team practices—underwater. Davis Cup: Aussies win
doubles thriller. Williamsport, Pa.: "Little League" baseball world
series.

6. Sept. 8, 1949. General Vaughan takes the stand in five-percent
hearings. American Legion on parade in Philadelphia.
Multimillion-dollar fire in San Francisco. Aid rushed to polio
victim in mid-ocean. Atlantic City: curtain going up; Ice Capades of
1950. Westbury, N. Y.: outsider wins $50,000 trotting classic.

7. Sept. 12, 1949. Grand Army of the Republic [meets in Indianapolis
for] the last encampment. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., weds in New
York. Gary Cooper honored by the Navy. World War II Vet heads
American Legion. Bevin and Cripps sail for U. S. talks. Kids visit
Santa's workshop. Are fashions going back to the twenties? Football:
Eastern All-Stars vs. Giants.

8. Sept. 15, 1949. Crazed veteran kills 13 [in Camden, N. J.]
Cleveland: national air races; Odom in fatal crash. Washington: U.
S., Britain, Canada open dollar talks. Atlantic City: nation's
prettiest in Miss America parade. Shirley May loses game fight vs.
Channel. Gonzales wins national tennis crown.

9. Sept. 19, 1949. Meet Miss and Mrs. America. Titusville, Pa.;
first U. S. oil well pumps again. A new German republic is born.
Canadian Army shows off its firepower. Tacoma, Wash.: rebuild famous
"Galloping Gertie" bridge. Do you remember—Tacomas bridge disaster.
Aqua toddlers; tiny tots go high diving. Hybla Valley Airport, Va.:
plane crashes wall in air thrill circus.

10. Sept. 22, 1949. Navy's newest rocket [Viking II]. Washington:
International monetary conference meets. Western Germany elects
first president. Theatre owners of America meet in Hollywood.
Vienna: news for kids—world's smallest horse. Hamburg: news for the
jaded—"The witch's kettle!" Rug-cutters jitter at Harvest Moon Ball.
Out on a limb: world's prettiest legs. First Paris fall fashions.
Historic America: Williamsburg, Va.

11. Sept. 26, 1949. Toronto ship fire. Vishinsky arrives for UN
General Assembly. Atlantic Pact Council meets in Washington. Theatre
owners hear Secretary Johnson. Glittering jewel fashions from
France. Westbury, N. Y.: International championships in polo. Whole
family tackles long New York Harbor swim. Spills galore mark
championship roller derby.

12. Sept. 29, 1949. College football kickoff: [Santa Clara vs.
California Golden Bears]. UN Assembly meets; Romulo named president.
Air Force dedicates the McGuire Air Force Base. Barbara Hutton back
in U. S. after illness. "Task Force" twin premiere in two oceans.
Meet Miss National Sweater Girl of 1949. Golden Gate swimming
classic. Germany: daredevil acrobats, 6,000 feet up.

13. Oct. 3, 1949. Russia's atomic explosion rocks the western world.
Homecoming clambake greets Shirley May France. Polesitting fan gives
up; sets record. It's already 1950 in California bathing fashions.
Behind the newsreel camera: the Empire State. Football: Michigan vs.
Michigan State; Stanford vs. Harvard.

14. Oct. 6, 1949. Defense chiefs go to sea [to observe Navy's
carrier-based air power]. San Francisco: world leaders of the
Episcopal church meet. "World citizen" Davis jailed in Paris. Miami
University, Fla.: new angles on the campus. Ultra modern garage ends
parking problems. Princeton, N. J.: scientists build "house of
illusions." The creed of the U. S. motion picture industry. Italy:
Kids' band, Hot-Tot Quintetto. Germany: Yogis show new twists.
Rodeo: New York goes to the broncs.

15. Oct. 10, 1949. Baseball's excitingest finish [Brooklyn Dodgers
vs. Phillies; Yankees honor Joe DiMaggio]. Reds [in Germany] release
2 vacationing U. S. students. Truman spends 2 hectic days in
Missouri. Steel strike begins as 200,000 walk out. London: royal
wedding; King's nephew weds commoner. Footwear fashions. Football:
Pittsburgh upsets powerful Northwestern; Penn whips Dartmouth.

16. Oct. 13, 1949. World series: first and second games. UN flag
raised over new skyscraper home. Fort Bragg, N. C.: airborne army
goes on parade. President opens Community Chest drive. Bathing
beauty contest under water. Confederate veterans hold 59th reunion.

17. Oct. 17, 1949. Yanks win World series. Washington: North
Atlantic Council chiefs meet. Cardinal Spellman visits the Pope.
Daring Arab horsemen in desert festival. French styles for dinner,
by Dior. Football: Army upsets mighty Michigan; Southern California
and Ohio State tie.

18. Oct. 20, 1949. Germany: Reds create East-Zone state; Allies
parade might. Nehru of India visits the United States. Greta Garbo
comes home, flees photographers. Blissful bus-full; family of 18
goes west. AFL meets; leaders cite U. S. films. Marineland, Fla.:
porpoises with purposes—fish high jump. Seal sets English Channel
swim record. Colorado river outboard marathon.

19. Oct. 24, 1949. U. S. Red leaders convicted. Chinese Reds in
Shanghai victory parade. Britain girds for Reds siege in Hong Kong.
"Americans in Paris" fashions. Great American quiz: Clara Barton.
Football: Cornell overpowers Yale; Notre Dame pulverizes Tulane;
California nips Southern California.

20. Oct. 27, 1949. Top U. S. brass speaks out in service wrangle.
Another royal Briton to wed a Mrs. Simpson. U. S. wedding bells ring
for Sarah Churchill. Winston Churchill can still dish it out.
Vishinsky storms as UN picks Yugoslavia. San Francisco ball teams on
tour in Japan. Pro football: Bears whip Eagles.

21. Oct. 31, 1949. Truman and world leaders hail new UN home.
Children's party for UN's 4th birthday. Puppy auction. Greek kids
make own shoes from UN leather. Diamond fashion show. Great cities
of America: Philadelphia. Football: Army outflanks Columbia;
Michigan upsets Minnesota; Pennsylvania scuttles Navy.

22. Nov. 3, 1949. Pro tennis: Kramer vs. Gonzales. Danes welcome
first U. S. woman ambassador. America's top envoys in Paris for
talks. New French honors for Jack L. Warner. Girl quads born to
Canadian family. Aviation sensation: channel wing airplane.
Aaronsburg, Pa., marks 150 years of brotherhood. Modern glass house
brings outdoors indoors. Stars model chinchilla furs. Pro football:
Yankees whip Forty-Niners.

23. Nov. 7, 1949. Football highlights: Notre Dame vs. Navy; SMU vs.
Texas; California vs. UCLA. 100,000th displaced person arrives in U.
S. Hawaii's $100,000,000 dock strike ends. Bidault forms cabinet to
end French crisis. Eric Johnston reports on Marshall Plan trip. West
Coast grandma makes news with dolls. East Coast grandma makes news
with a piano. Capot whips Coaltown in the Pimlico Special.

24. Nov. 10, 1949, 55 die in mid-air crash [at Washington National
Airport]. Sherman in, Denfeld out as Navy Chief. Spectacular fire
sweeps California hills. Brooklyn boy [Danny Kaye] makes good.
National horseshow highlights. Pro football: Rams nip Bears in
thriller.

25. Nov. 14, 1949. Football highlights: Army vs. Fordham; Notre Dame
vs. Michigan State; Stanford vs. USC. Big freighter goes on rocks
near Seattle. ECA chief asks Europe to end trade barriers. Weizmann
Institute dedicated in Israel. Admiral Sherman on deck as brass sees
Army show. Meet "Droopert" the screw driver.

26. Nov. 17, 1949. Democrats win New York elections; Truman's happy.
Vishinsky plays host at embassy party. "Veep" Barkley named
"Grandfather of year." Churchill attends grandchild's christening.
John L. Lewis calls the mine strike off. HMS Amethyst comes home to
hero's welcome. Hawaii celebrates Aloha Week festival. Pro football:
Eagles overwhelm Rams. Kids football: Maulers whip Avengers.

27. Nov. 21, 1949. Football highlights: Notre Dame vs. North
Carolina; Army vs. Penn; Ohio State vs. Illinois; Dartmouth vs.
Cornell. President helps plan Brotherhood Week, 1950. Boxer Marcel
Cerdan is buried in Casablanca. Cow "milks" Canadians to aid UN
children. Duel settles an affair of honor in Paris.

28. Nov. 24, 1949. Navy rocket launched from sub. Acheson home from
Big Three meeting. Iran's Shah arrives for state visit. Negro women
honor Bunche and Mme. Pandit. Air Force unveils a XB–51, a 3–jet
bomber. Airlines unveil a surprise: an air-born baby. Kids' winter
fashions go to the zoo. New York: celebrities' art show. Silver
Springs, Fla.: new sport that they do on porpoise boards. Pro
football: Browns battle Bills to tie.

29. Nov. 28, 1949. B–29's in land and sea crashes [Stockton, Calif.
and the Atlantic] Vice President Barkley takes a wife. Viscount
Montgomery arrives for a visit. Jimmy Roosevelt enters California
Governor race. Film stars at royal command performance. Football:
Ohio State vs. Michigan; California vs. Stanford; North Carolina vs.
Duke; Tulane vs. Virginia.

30. Dec. 1, 1949. [Football Yankees meet the Cleveland Browns].
Huntington, Ind.; razzle dazzle basketball queens. Jackie Robinson
named most valuable player. General Ike [Eisenhower] at freedom
rites at Valley Forge. General MacArthur greets Secretary Snyder in
Japan. Military parade marks Turkish independence. Yakima, Wash.:
world championship apple packing contest. England pets go to church
on "Animal Sunday." Dog acrobat makes a wow of a bow. Even the cows
wear stylish hats in Paris.

31. Dec. 5, 1949. Football: Army vs. Navy; Cornell vs. Penn; Notre
Dame vs. Southern California. Peron welcomes new U. S. envoy
Griffis. Rep. J. Parnell Thomas goes on trial. Princess Elizabeth
visits Philip at Malta. Lilienthal resigns as Atomic Energy head.
Santa Claus on parade [in New York, Philadelphia and Hollywood].

32. Dec. 8, 1949. 28 dead in Dallas air crash. Truman on vacation in
Key West. Tiny Monaco hails its new monarch. Lewis orders miners
back 3 days a week. Montgomery urges Western unity against Reds.
Camp Lee, Va.: Wacs and packs on bivouac. Memo from Hollywood: mail
early for Xmas. Army team wins the Lambert trophy. Pro football:
Eagles vs. Steelers. Kids football classic: Half Pint Bowl [in
Washington].

33. Dec. 12, 1949. Navy jet [Douglas Skyrocket] flies faster than
sound. Winston Churchill hale and hearty at 75. Montgomery leaves
the U. S. Vice President and Mrs. Barkley at $100 Democrat dinner.
Wife awaits flier held by China Reds. Airmen start new gold rush of
forty-nine. France: wheel of progress—the umbrella bicycle. Italy:
cycle of inventions—the lie-down bike. SMU gives Notre Dame its
closest call.

34. Dec. 15, 1949. Inside Tito's Yugoslavia. Physician, 84, named
doctor of the year. President of Nationalist China in U. S.
Vishinsky wishes all a happy new year. Congress probes atom
shipments to Reds. Get ready kids, Santa Claus is coming. Canada:
family of muscles—6 brothers of brawn. Notre Dame's Hart wins
Heisman trophy. Cardinals nip Rams in pro grid thriller.

35. Dec. 19, 1949. Rep. J. Parnell Thomas jailed for fraud. Judge
Medina on vacation in Bermuda. Shah of Iran visits great Hoover Dam.
Doolittle raider now preaches in Japan. Jerusalem Jews in mass oath
to Israel. HMS Implacable sent to the bottom. Australian farmers
battles flying foxes. New assault transport is "flying LST." New
gadget makes tough parking easy. Holiday fashion highlights from
France. Historic America: Sutter's Mill.

36. Dec. 22, 1949. Christmas 1949; a stirring film record of the
holiday spirit everywhere in the world. Browns beat '49ers for pro
championship. Fogbound airliner falls into Potomac near Washington.

38. Dec. 29, 1949. China Reds free Angus Ward. Mayor O'Dwyer wed to
Sloan Simpson. France: jet-propelled helicopter. Startling ski
fashions from France. Navy task force tackles the Arctic. Hawaii
takes to the surf en masse. Basketball: NYU whips California; LIU
smothers USC.

See also RKO Pathe News.

WARRIORS OF ANOTHER WORLD: a drama of insects and spiders.

WASHINGTON IRVING. Emerson Film Corp. Released by Encyclopaedia
Britannica Films, Inc., c1949. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Traces Washington Irving's early life in New York as a
lawyer and writer; describes his travels and life abroad,
highlighting the incidents which influenced the writing of his
best-known literary works. For junior and senior high school and
adult groups.

Credits: Collaborator, Leon Howard.

WASHINGTON MELODRAMA. Loew's Inc., c1941. Presented by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 8 reels, sd., b&w. Based on a play by L. du
Rocher Macpherson.

Credits: Producer, Edgar Selwyn; director, S. Sylvan Simon;
screenplay, Marion Parsonnet, Roy Chanslor; music score, David
Snell; film editor, Gene Ruggiero.

WASHINGTON—THE SHRINE OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM. The Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Co., c1940. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Narrator, Alois Havrilla.

WASTAGE OF HUMAN RESOURCES. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.,
c1947. 11 min., sd., b&w, 16 mm.

Summary: This film deals with human beings as resources of the
nation, and shows such causes of wastage as accidents, disease,
neglect, and maltreatment. For junior and senior high schools and
adult groups.

Credits: Collaborator, Lawrence K. Frank.

WATCH ON THE RHINE. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1943. 114 min., sd.
A Hal B. Wallis production. A Warner Bros.-First National picture.
From the stage play by Lillian Hellman.

Credits: Director, Herman Shumlin; screenplay, Dashiell Hammett;
music, Max Steiner; music director, Leo F. Forbstein; orchestral
arrangements, Hugo Friedhofer; film editor, Rudi Fehr.

WATCH OUT! Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1946. 1
reel, sd.

Credits: Director, William Forest Crouch.

WATCH THAT QUOTATION. Coronet, c1949. 11 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Demonstrates the importance of accuracy in the use of oral
and written quotations. For children in intermediate and junior high
grades.

Credits: Educational collaborator, J. Paul Leonard.

WATCH THE BIRDIE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1942.
1 reel, sd.

THE WATCHDOG. Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1945.
Presented by Paul Terry. (A Terrytoon) (Aesop's Fable)

Credits: Director, Eddie Donnelly; story, John Foster; music, Philip
A. Scheib. Technicolor.

THE WATCHDOG. Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1939.
Presented by Paul Terry. 1 reel, sd., b&w. (Terrytoon)

Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, Eddie Donnelly; story, John
Foster; music, Philip A. Scheib.

THE WATCHMAN TAKES A WIFE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 1,461 ft.

Credits: Director, Del Lord; story and screenplay, Elwood Ullman.

WATER AS NATURE MEANT IT TO BE. c1947. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 16mm.

Appl. authors: William Rogers, Louis Rogers, John A. Stewart.

WATER BABIES. The Vitaphone Corp., c1945. 10 min., sd., color. (Sports
Parade)

Credits: Producers, Blumenthal, Heilner; director, Andre de La
Varre. Technicolor.

WATER BATTLERS. Universal Pictures Co. Inc., c1948. 10 min., sd., b&w,
35mm. (Answer Man Series)

Credits: Producer, Harry A. Kapit; director, Benjamin R. Parker;
editor, Lewis D. Pollack.

WATER BIRDS. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., c1944. 1 reel.

WATER BUGS. Loew's Inc., c1941. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 917
ft., sd., b&w. (A Pete Smith Specialty)

Credits: Director, Will Jason; original story and screenplay, E.
Maurice Adler; film editor, Philip Anderson.

THE WATER CYCLE. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., in
collaboration with S. Ralph Powers, c1947. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 16mm.

WATER CYCLE. SEE Le Cycle de l'Eau.

WATER—FRIEND OR ENEMY. Walt Disney Productions, c1943. 1 reel, sd.

WATER IN THE AIR. Radford Pictures Inc., c1949. 11 min., sd., b&w,
16mm.

Summary: A city boy visits the farm and discovers how water is drawn
up from the earth. Simple kitchen experiments explain evaporation,
condensation, and what causes water in the air to return to the
earth as rain. An elementary science film.

WATER POWER. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., in collaboration
with George T. Renner, Jr., c1946. 1 reel, sd., b&w. 16mm. Afrikaans
version. Title on script: "Waterkrag."

WATER SPEED. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1949. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
(Grantland Rice Sportlight)

Summary: Presents outstanding men and women swimmers—Jackie Levine
and Walter Riss, free style champions; Nancy Merki Lees, Keith
Carter, and Joe Verdeur, butterfly breast stroke champions; and
Maureen O'Brien and Alan Stack, back stroke champions.

Credits: Producer, Jack Eaton; narrator, Ted Husing; music, Harry D.
Glass.

WATER SPORTS. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1941. 10 min., sd., color.
(Sports Parade)

Credits: Director, Del Frazier; commentator, Knox Manning.
Technicolor.

WATER TRIX. Loew's Inc., c1949. 9 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Pete Smith
Specialty) An MGM picture.

Summary: Charles T. Trego photographs daring water sports from his
helicopter.

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; director and
photographer, Charles T. Trego; film editor, Joseph Dietrick.

WATER WISDOM. Loew's Inc., c1943. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
826 ft., sd., b&w. (A Pete Smith Specialty)

Credit: Film editor, Philip Anderson.

WATER WIZARDS. Vitaphone Corp., c1949. 10 min., sd., color, 35mm. (The
Sports Parade) Warner Bros.

Summary: Underwater formation swimming and other water sports are
shown at Wickiwachee Springs, Florida.

Credits: Written by Saul Elkins; narrator, Art Gilmore; editor, Rex
Steele.

WATER WONDERLAND. Vitaphone Corp., c1949. 10 min., sd., color, 35mm.
(Sports Parade) Warner Bros.

Summary: Famous resorts in Southern California provide the settings
for the water sports that are highlighted in this film.

Credits: Director, Virgil E. Ellsworth; written by Charles Tedford;
narrator, Art Gilmore.

WATER WORKS FOR US. Young America Films, Inc., c1949. 10 min., sd.,
b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Explains the basic principle of water pressure and shows
the many ways in which water works for us. For elementary school
science classes.

Credits: Advisers, Gerald S. Craig, Helen Warrin.

Appl. author: Leonard Peck.

WATERCOLOR TECHNIQUE. c1939. 1 reel, si., b&w, 16mm.

Appl. author: Eliot O'Hara.

WATERFRONT. c1944. Presented by P.R.C. Pictures, Inc. 7 reels, sd. An
Alexander-Stern production.

Credits: Producer, Arthur Alexander; director, Steve Sekely;
original screenplay, Martin Mooney, Irwin R. Franklyn; music
director, Lee Zahler; film editor, Charles Henkel, Jr.

WATERFRONT AT MIDNIGHT. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1948. 65 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A melodrama in which a New York police officer brings to
justice the leader of a gang of waterfront thieves.

Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas; director,
William Berke; original screenplay, Bernard Girard; music score,
Harry Lubin; film editor, Howard Smith.

Cast: William Gargan, Mary Beth Hughes, Richard Travis, Richard
Crane, Cheryl Walker.

WATERKRAG. SEE Water Power.

WATERLOO BRIDGE. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
11 reels, sd., b&w. A Mervyn LeRoy production. Based on the play by
Robert E. Sherwood.

Credits: Producer, Sidney Franklin; director, Mervyn LeRoy;
screenplay, S. N. Behrman, Hans Rameau, George Froeschel; music
score, Herbert Stothart; film editor, George Boemler.

WATERLOO ROAD. Gainsborough Pictures, Ltd., London., c1945. Released
in the U. S. by Eagle Lion Films, Inc., 1949. A J. Arthur Rank
presentation. 77 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A semi-documentary drama which probes the domestic problems
that arise in wartime as a result of loneliness and difficult living
conditions. Setting, London during World War II.

Credits: Producer, Edward Black; directed and written by Sidney
Gilliat; story, Val Valentine; music director, Louis Levy; editor,
Alfred Roome.

Cast: John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison
Leggatt.

WATTS EXPLOSION TESTS.

Appl. author: Wendell M. Dillon.

THE WATUSSI OF AFRICA. Erpi Classroom Films, Inc., c1939. 1 reel.

Appl. author: George Herzog.

DIE WATUSSI VAN AFRIKA. SEE A Giant People.

WAVE-A-STICK BLUES. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,
c1942. 1 reel, sd.

A WAVE, A WAC AND A MARINE. Biltmore Productions, c1944. 8 reels, sd.
An Edward Sherman production.

Credits: Producer, Sebastian Cristillo; director, Phil Karlstein;
original story, Lillian Planer, Dick Hyland; screenplay, Hal
Fimberg; music director, Freddie Rich; photography, Maury Gertsman;
film editor, William Zeigler.

WAY BACK WHEN A NAG WAS ONLY A HORSE. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940.
1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, Dave Fleischer; story, Joseph Stultz; animation,
Myron Waldman, George Moreno.

WAY BACK WHEN A NIGHT CLUB WAS A STICK. Paramount Pictures Inc.,
c1940. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, Dave Fleischer; story, William Turner; animation,
David Tendlar, Edwain Rehberg.

WAY BACK WHEN A RAZZBERRY WAS A FRUIT. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940.
1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, Dave Fleischer; story, Dan Gordan; animation,
James Culhane, Alfred Eugster.

WAY BACK WHEN A TRIANGLE HAD ITS POINTS. Paramount Pictures Inc.,
c1940. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, Dave Fleischer; story, William Turner; animation,
David Tendlar, Thomas Golden.

WAY BACK WHEN WOMEN HAD THEIR WEIGH; Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 1
reel.

Credits: Director, Dave Fleischer; story, Ted Pierce; animation,
Thomas Johnson, Harold Walker.

WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS. Soundies Distributing Corp. of
America, Inc., c1941. 1 reel, sd.

WAY DOWN YONDER IN THE CORN. c1943. Presented by Columbia. 659 ft.,
sd., color. (A Fox and Crow)

Credits: Producer, Dave Fleischer; director, Bob Wickersham; story,
Sam Cobean; animation, Phil Duncan, Basil Davidovich; music, Eddie
Kilfeather. Technicolor.

A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 950 ft., sd., sepia. (John Nesbitt's Passing
Parade)

Credits: Director, Fred Zinnemann; screenplay, Herman Boxer; music
score, David Snell; film editor, Albert Akst.

THE WAY OF ALL FLESH. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 9 reels, sd.
Based on a story by Lajos Biro and Jules Furthman.

Credits: Associate producer, Eugene Zukor; director, Louis King;
screenplay, Lenore Coffee; photography, Theodor Sparkuhl; film
editor, Stuart Gilmore.

THE WAY OF ALL PESTS. Released by Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 655
ft., sd., color. (Color Rhapsody, no. 74)

Credits: Direction, Art Davis; animation, Sid Marcus; music, Joe De
Nat. Technicolor.

THE WAY OF PEACE. East-West Studio for the Wartburg Press, c1947. 18
min., sd., color, 16mm.

Credits: Written and directed by Frank Tashlin; narration, Lew
Ayres.

Appl. authors: H. K. Rasbach, Frank Tashlin.

WAY OF THE PADRES. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1948. 8 min.,
sd., color, 35mm. (Movietone Adventures)

Summary: Shows the present day appearance of the country traversed
by the friars of the old missions: Mt. Whitney and its mountain
trails, Death Valley, Imperial Valley, and Palm Springs with its
rodeo grounds and western pageantry. The municipal buildings of Los
Angeles and Hollywood, the homes of the stars, the 20th Century-Fox
lot, the radio studios, and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, are viewed
from a blimp. In the heart of the mission country, the Rancheros
Visitadores, in traditional costumes, line up for the blessing of
the Franciscan friars.

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; music score, L. De Francesco; film
editor, Valeska Weidig.

THE WAY TO HEAVEN. C. O. Baptista Films, c1946. 700 ft., sd., b&w,
16mm.

WAYS TO GOOD HABITS. Coronet, c1949. 10 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Illustrates that recognition of bad habits and continued
effort to correct them is necessary in building good habits.

Credits: Educational collaborator, William E. Young.

WE ARE AMERICANS TOO; Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,
c1943. 1 reel, sd.

WE CAN LIVE ON LOVE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,
c1941. 1 reel, sd.

WE CAN MAKE SUCH BEAUTIFUL MUSIC TOGETHER. Soundies Distributing Corp.
of America, Inc., c1941. 1 reel, sd.

WE DID IT. 16 mm.

Appl. author: W. D. Mattison.

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