Volume 31, 1947/48.

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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].

46. June 8, 1948. Tension over truce brings new climax to Palestine War. President tours the Nation; speaks at Chicago; [parades with veterans in Omaha]. 410 midshipmen say farewell to Annapolis. Midget auto race [Polo Grounds, New York]. English Derby [won by My Love]. Sweepstakes ticket brings $25,000 to Bronx family [of Frank Bisconti].

47. June 11, 1948. Palestine truce opens the way to peace. President Truman hailed in Far West. Senator Vandenberg on ERP [before Senate Appropriations Committee]. Atlantic City, Shriners parade. West Point graduation. President Auriol visits Normandie. U. S. visitors [shopping in] Canada. U. S. Olympic divers [Marjorie Guestring, Sammy Lee, and others] display fine form at Los Angeles.

48. June 15, 1948. President, hailed at Los Angeles, flays Congress, and winds up tour of Nation. Italy: recently-elected President Luigi Einaudi takes command of the army. Japan: Cardinal Spellman calls on the Mikado in Tokyo. Paris [U. S. war dead honored at tomb of Napoleon]. Santa Cruz [Reba Watterson selected as California's entry in Miss America contest]. New Jersey: Miss Atlantic City title goes to Wanda Sullivan. Sports: horseracing [Tokyo]; gymnastics [Austrian Olympic candidates at Salzburg]; water skiing [Cypress Gardens, Fla.]

49. June 18, 1948. President hailed at Los Angeles; flays Congress. Truman winds up tour of nation. Foreign flashes: President [Einaudi] of Italy; Cardinal Spellman in Japan; U. S. memorial in Paris. Santa Cruz, California, selects entry for Miss America. New Jersey: Miss Atlantic City chosen. Sports: Nippon Derby [at Tokyo]; Austrian gymnasts [at Salzberg]; water skiing [at Cypress Gardens, Fla.].

50. June 22, 1948. The Republican 1948 convention in Philadelphia [arrival of delegates and candidates; General Wainwright, Speaker Joe Martin, Earl Warren, and others; Stassen and Taft headquarters; opening ceremonies; keynote address by Governor Green of Illinois]. Sports: Splashketball [at New London, Conn.]; Salinas [Calif.] rodeo.

51. June 25, 1948. Dewey wins! New York governor nominated by Republicans. [Speaker Martin takes over as permanent chairman; address by former president Hoover. Nominations: Senator Martin places Dewey's name in race; Bricker nominates Taft; Representative Walter Judd presents Stassen. First two ballots cast. Warren and Taft withdraw in favor of Dewey; Stassen, Martin, others withdraw to make Dewey nomination unanimous. Dewey appears and is greeted with ovation. Accepts nomination.]

52. June 29, 1948. [Earl] Warren nominated for vice president by the Republicans. German story: [Russian currency issued in Berlin; U. S. and British planes fly food to city during Red blockade]. Palestine: [refugee movements to and from Israel, during truce period]. Mountbatten leaves India [Governor General relinquishes post; first Hindu Governor General installed]. Miss America of 1947 weds [Barbara Walker of Memphis]. Sports: Joe Louis quits the ring [after victory over Joe Walcott]; kids' Soap Box Derby [Ellwangen, Germany].

53. July 2, 1948. Venezuela President [Gallegos visits Truman in Washington]. Dewey and Warren at Pawling, N. Y. Eric Johnston says British film quota is unreasonable. King Gustav [of Sweden has] ninetieth birthday. Genzano [Italy] street paved with flowers. AFL union show in Milwaukee. Tyrone Power talks to graduating class at Tampa University. Sports: women's AAU diving and swimming [at San Diego]; Olympic bike race [at Milwaukee]; kids' rodeo [at Eugene, Or.].

54. July 6, 1948. Latest films of East-West Berlin crisis [breakup of four-power Kommandatura; black market and currency confusion; blockade of land travel from West Germany]. Pope Pius is hailed by vast throng of workers in Rome. Secretary [of the Army] Royall tells how new draft law will work. Youngsters learn about government in own junior city [in Kansas City]. Sports: racing; Grand Prix [auto race in Monaco]; fishing; porpoise hunt [in Florida]; boxing; U. S. Olympic finals [in Boston].

55. July 9, 1948. Japanese city [Fukui] wiped out by earthquake. U. S. planes ease food shortage in Berlin crisis. Eisenhower greets fellow-freshmen at the Columbia University. Chinese-American bathing beauties parade for title. England: [Falkenburg aces Australia's Bromwich in] Wimbledon tennis. Bavaria: German daredevil [walks tight wire over the Bavarian Alps]. Georgia: stock car race [at Lakewood Speedway in Atlanta].

56. July 13, 1948. The Democratic 1948 convention in Philadelphia [delegates and leaders arrive]. Palestine: British evacuation; parley between Jews and Arabs; Jewish refugees bound for Palestine. Count Bernadotte arrives in New York. Japan: General MacArthur and General Eichelberger attend military parade.

57. July 16, 1948. Truman, Barkley nominated by Democrats [at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia]. Southern group [Mississippi and Alabama] bolts the convention. Truman in violent attack on GOP.

58. July 20, 1948. Security Council vote forces new Palestine truce. Nation mourns General Pershing, dead at 87. "Dixiecrats" hold own convention at Birmingham. World events: Berlin situation [fleets of planes come to Templehof Airport]. Togliatti shooting [Italian Communist leader wounded after assassination attempt]. Durocher [welcomed by Giants] and Shotten [welcomed by Dodgers]. One-hundred thousand-dollar Gold Cup [Race; turf-goers join Hollywood Park to watch Shannon II, an Australian horse, win.]

59. July 23, 1948. East-West crisis at a climax over "battle of Berlin." General Clay arrives [in Washington] with report; American B–29's fly to England; U. S., British jets cross Atlantic; anti-Communist rally in Berlin. News flashes: Hershey [director of Selective Service] and volunteers; Lieutenant Murphy [most decorated American soldier, receives Legion of Honor in France]. Commies arrested [top leadership in American Communist Party is arraigned in New York]. Athletes [Olympic team] arrive in England. Portola trek [modern horsemen follow the trail of Spanish adventurers in California]. Sports: Olympic torch is lighted; water skiing [in Seattle]; sand skiing [in Colorado].

60. July 27, 1948. Third party nominates Wallace. General Clay, U. S. chief in Berlin, reports on crisis. Dewey holds conferences on foreign affairs. Giant 180–passenger transport plane [Constitution] joins U. S. Navy. Ku Klux Klan meets [in Georgia] to initiate 500 new members. Parade and frolic mark aquatennial at Minneapolis. Killer admits mass slaying [in Van West, Ohio].

61. July 30, 1948. President demands action by Congress in special session. Taft speaks for the Republicans. News flashes: Canadian ship on reef [off the coast of British Columbia]; pneumatic weapons; whaling off British Columbia; grasshopper plague in Argentine; Chicago celebrates railroad centennial. Sports: Sydney [Australia] dog show; skiing Australia [in New South Wales]; Del Mar [California] racing opens.

62. Aug. 3, 1948. World's greatest airport opened at New York. Congress probes Communist spy ring in U. S. Thousands killed and injured in German blast [at I. G. Farben chemical plant]. Broadway show [cast of "The Play's the Thing"] flies to Colorado to aid Central City fete. Olympic games [at Wembley Stadium in London].

63. Aug. 6, 1948. Dramatic hearings in Washington on Red spies in U. S. Dayton, Ohio: Univis Lens Company strike. Longview, Wash.: dock fire. Independence, Mo.: Truman walks and votes. U. S. athletic stars shine in London's Olympic Games.

64. Aug. 10, 1948. Red spy hearings [in Washington] reveal Russia got A-bomb material. England releases first pictures of its atomic plant [at Harwell]. Hollywood stars aid UN charity show in Paris. High wire walker celebrates his 82nd birthday [Ivy Baldwin of Eldorado Springs, Colo.]. Americans in clean sweep of Olympic events in London.

65. Aug. 13, 1948. Ex-U. S. government officials [Victor Perlo and others] deny Red espionage charges [made by Elizabeth Bentley in Washington]. Violence marks flight of Soviet teachers in New York [Samarin and Mrs. Kosenkina flee Russian control]. Olympics: marathon and relay [in London]. Trotting: Hambletonian [at Goshen, N. Y.]. Golf: Tam O'Shanter [Tournament in Chicago]. Racing: Del Mar [Los Angeles].

66. Aug. 17, 1948. Babe Ruth passes [in New York]. U. S. orders Russian teacher [Mrs. Kosenkina] to testify before [House] Committee [on Un-American Activities]. Operation Splash: B–29 drops lifeboat for air-sea rescue [at Mitchell Field, N. Y.]. President Truman hails Youth Month [in Washington]. Tyrone Power visits Madrid. Sports: Soap Box Derby at Akron; water skiing in Maryland.

67. Aug. 20, 1948. Throngs gather [at Yankee Stadium in New York] to pay homage to Babe Ruth. MacArthur visits new republic of Korea. Canadian oil well [in Alberta] goes on a rampage, floods farmland. Grandmas display charm and wit in Chicago contest. Daredevil high diver [Sol Solomon] uses little water, makes big splash [at Palisades Park, N. J.]. Great action filmed as Olympic Games close in London.

68. Aug. 24, 1948. Treason trials face Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose. U. S. demands recall of Russian Consul [Lomakin] in teacher case. Australia supports UN appeal for war orphans. Invasion tactics shown in landing on Virginia coast [joint Army, Navy, and Air Force operation]. Sports: all-star football; [in Chicago, College All-Stars beaten by Chicago Cardinals]; North-South football [in Cincinnati]; France-U. S. swimmers [meet in Paris]; star sailboating [at Seattle].

69. Aug. 27, 1948. U. S.—Soviet crisis as Russia shuts its consulates. Mrs. Kosenkina exposes Red lie. Charge of perjury faces Chambers or Hiss at Red inquiry. West guards zones in Berlin against Russian raiders. A salute to youth in sports: kids baseball [Kansas City, Kansas]; girl water star [five-year old Frances Roller]; kids boxing [Williamsburg Settlement playground in Brooklyn].

70. Aug. 31, 1948. World conference of churches held in Amsterdam. Nation mourns Justice Hughes. News flashes: Communists march on Berlin City Hall; 25–year-olds register in peacetime draft. Names in the news: President Truman ends vacation; John A. Costello in New York; Jacob M. Lomakin leaves Russian consul; Winston Churchill visits France; Darryl F. Zanuck in Italy. Sports: horse racing, American Derby [Citation wins]; Ice Capades of 1949.

71. Sept. 2, 1948. Queen Wilhelmina feted at end of 50–year reign. Chief Communist in U. S. [Alexander Stevens] identified by former Reds. World events: Greek war [against Communist insurgents]; Berlin plane crash [of American cargo plane]; [Navy] flying boat Mars [sets non-stop record]; Lourdes pilgrimage [of Americans]. Governor Green hails National Youth Month. Sports: Navy-Notre Dame football training; Eisenhower fishing. Pennsylvania week.

72. Sept. 7, 1948. Victor Kravchenko, who chose freedom from Soviets, tells about teacher case. World's smallest republic [Freeville, N. Y.] run by boys and girls. Automatic garage designed to solve parking problems. New Chinese money issued to combat wild inflation. National AAU long distance swim meets.

73. Sept. 10, 1948. Presidential campaign opens: Truman speaks in Detroit; Stassen's answer to the President. Queen Wilhelmina abdicates throne; Juliana succeeds. Dancing champions show fine form at Harvest Moon Ball. Sports: U. S. wins Davis cup; pro football for charity [Washington Redskins vs. Los Angeles Rams]; shooting rapids [of Niagara River] in barrel.

74. Sept. 14, 1948. Huge Berlin rally against Russians ends in violence. News flashes: Canadian oil well fire [at Leduc Field]; Governor and Mrs. Dewey register; girls hail Pope [Square of Saint Peters]. U. S. Air Force marks first anniversary. Pennsylvania Week is proclaimed by Governor Duff. Hollywood benefit circus. Miss America [Beatrice Shopp]. Sports: mountain climbing, Rocky Mountain National Park; auto hell drivers.

75. Sept. 17, 1948. A marked man [Mikhail Samarin] talks. East-West clashes turn Berlin into city of turmoil. Film flashes: President greets "Youth of the Year"; Miss Truman opens "first voter" drive; woman [Margaret Chase Smith] wins Senate election; ground broken in New York for UN capitol; oil tanks explode in California fire. Mrs. America [Maria Strohmeier]. Sports: Giants-Bears football; Charles-Bivins boxing; motorcycle hill climb.

76. Sept. 21, 1948. Presidential campaign; Truman speaks in Iowa; Dewey starts tour of West. French communist demonstration ends in riot. Assassination of Bernadotte shocks world. Marshall given humanity award by Variety Clubs. Sports: Bears-Redskins football; Pendleton Round-up; International Tuna Cup matches.

77. Sept. 24, 1948. Truman-Dewey Presidential campaign. UN pays homage to martyred Bernadotte. Hurricane; Atlantic-born storm lashes Florida. Coast Guard rescue [of fishing schooner by] Cutter Bibb. Paris opera ballet helps mark New York's Golden Jubilee fashion show. Variety Club award given Boston Tent. B–29 and baby jet plane. Sports: Marcel Cerdan, new middleweight champ; Capt. Walker, flying daredevil.

78. Sept. 28, 1948. East-West Berlin crisis turned over to United Nations. Politics: Presidential campaign tour in California, President Truman addressing Los Angeles throng; Governor Dewey at Hollywood Bowl. Air Force reunion featured by great show in New York. Community Chest parade in Kansas City hails Youth Month. Football highlights: Notre Dame-Purdue; Army-Villanova; California-Navy. Boston Braves win National League championship.

79. Oct. 1, 1948. East-West showdown before UN. Soviet Chiefs pay final tribute to Zhdanov. Presidential campaign: Truman sees ex-Vice President Garner in Texas; Dewey tours California, then Pacific Northwest; Warren opens GOP office in New York. Thousands witness Greek Holy Cross celebration. Fort Bragg training turns enlistees into fighting men. Sports: North Carolina-Texas football; Hell drivers, Trenton, N. J.; trotting [Delaware, Ohio].

80. Oct. 5, 1948. President Truman returns to Washington. Governor Dewey addresses huge crowds in Middle West. Canada: RCAF air rescue. India: Ganges River overflows. Fortunate fish get preview of 1949 swim suits. 80,000 youngsters march in Boston C.Y.O. parade. Cornerstone rites at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. National cotton picking contest in Arkansas. Youth committee aids stricken boy from Australia [John Reid]. Cleveland-Boston play-off. Army-Lafayette football. Penn-Dartmouth football. Michigan-Oregon football.

81. Oct. 8, 1948. Russian action in Berlin crisis on trial at UN. Hurricane hits Cuba. Coast Guard rescue off Bahamas. Truman hailed in Philadelphia. National Youth Month marked in Philadelphia. Delta airliner [Douglas DC–6] christened by Linda Darnell. All Golden Horses display fine form at Springfield, Mo. Sports: World Series highlights, first and second games; Notre Dame-Pittsburgh football; Grand Prix auto race. Community Chest Drive, Jersey City premiere "Apartment for Peggy."

82. Oct. 12, 1948. [Truman greets Marshall upon his return from UN Assembly in Paris.] Churchill visits RAF. Juliana honors Wilhelmina. Japanese rulers meet press. President Truman in New Jersey. Governor Dewey in New York City. Sports: Cleveland wins World Series; Army-Illinois football.

83. Oct. 15, 1948. The Dewey story [a film presentation of the life of Thomas Dewey]. President Eisenhower installed at Columbia University.

84. Oct. 19, 1948. The Truman story [a film presentation of the life of Harry S. Truman]. The pigskin parade: Pennsylvania 20, Columbia 14; Michigan 28, Northwestern 0.

85. Oct. 22, 1948. President attends American Legion's Miami convention. Dewey at Herald-Tribune forum. London, [British] Commonwealth conference. Athens, Secretary Marshall in Greece. Rome, Secretary Marshall in Italy. Tokyo, MacArthur and Korean president. Washington, Clay reports on Berlin air life. "Seapower for peace" is U. S. Navy slogan on its birthday. Governor Bradford urges support of [Boston] Community Fund. 50th American Royal Exposition hailed in Kansas City. The Mirror Building is dedicated in Los Angeles. Army-Harvard football. Columbia University class rush.

86. Oct. 26, 1948. World events. Miners riot, France. Gwalior festival, India. Historic Wright plane returns to America. Baruch says Russia forces us to make atomic weapons. In the feminine world: Royalty at wedding, London. Youth month contest winner, New York. Football highlights: Michigan-Minnesota; Army-Cornell; Clemson-South Carolina.

87. Oct. 29, 1948. World Events. London: King and Queen ride to Parliament. France: French mine strikes. Florida: Operations Combine [jet bombing]. Industry: Coal mining machine. Free apartment won by veteran in Miami contest. [Irish] Sweepstakes winners. Sweater fashions. Sports: Penn-Navy football; North Carolina-L.S.U. football; roller skating derby.

88. Nov. 2, 1948. DPs land in New York. Pennsylvania smog. UN plan to lift Berlin blockade vetoed by Russia. Henry Morgenthau returns from tour of Israel. Tight rope walker in breath-taking act in the Alps. 80–year-old barber in Lowell, Ohio, disregards inflation. Sports: Citation wins walkover [Pimlico Special]; Notre Dame-Navy game; California-Southern California; S.M.U.-Texas football.

89. Nov. 5, 1948. Truman's dramatic triumph. Israeli forces battle Arabs in the Negev. Chicago: six day bike race. Canada: Gorgeous George, wrestler.

90. Nov. 9, 1948. Truman returns to Washington in triumph. DeGaulle victory [following elections for his party in the French Senate and the Council of the Republic]. Athenagoras heads Greek church. Men enter Army in nation's first peacetime draft. French arctic expedition. Theatre of Atoms [a laboratory established by Westinghouse at Pittsburgh]. Army-Stanford football. Penn State-Penn Football.

91. Nov. 12, 1948. Thunderbolt hunters; science reveals phenomenon in lightning. Flood-ruined Vanport, Oregon, is salvaged. Long Island bumper crop of potatoes buried. Fashions in furs. Michigan-Navy football. Melbourne Cup [Race, Australia] Stag hunt near Paris. Dog training: pups herd sheep [in Australia].

92. Nov. 16, 1948. Britain hails birth of son to Elizabeth. Tojo sentenced to die for Jap war crimes. President Truman on vacation. Dock strike paralyzes Eastern shipping. Florida citrus crop. Mrs. Patton christens tank. Mackenzie King resigns as prime minister. Football highlights: Philadelphia, Army-Penn football; South Bend, Notre Dame-Northwestern.

93. Nov. 19, 1948. Bikini A-bomb ship, USS Pensacola, sunk by Navy. President Truman on vacation in Florida. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is honored in England. Ft. Bliss, Texas, centennial. Spectacular display of Australian armor. Embroidery fashions. Radio City ice skating. Australian kid acrobats. Women wrestlers. Pro basketball: Minneapolis Lakers-N. Y. Knickerbockers.

94. Nov. 23, 1948. The President goes back to work. Town in Kansas [Goodland] is buried by a blizzard. Mrs. Kosenkina quits hospital after 99 days. Navy jet aviation: Lockheed Constitution take-off; Navy jet fighter [Cutlass] makes test run in Maryland. Harvard-Yale football; Michigan-Ohio State football; USC-UCLA football.

95. Nov. 26, 1948. UN votes down Red proposal to cut armaments. 802 European DP's land at Boston. A picture a minute with new camera. The smallest plane in the world [San Diego, Calif.]. Milkman in Illinois inherits fortune from Denmark. Football highlights of 1948.

96. Nov. 30, 1948. Dock strike ends. Santa Claus parade [New York City]. Churchill honored [London University]. African wedding [of the King of Buganda]. Father Flanagan statue unveiled at Boys Town. Cornell upsets Penn, 23–14, to win Ivy League title. Georgia wins Orange Bowl berth, beating Georgia Tech. Army-Navy gridiron upset.

97. Dec. 3, 1948. Nationalists fight Chinese Reds in Suchow battle. Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek [arrives in Washington]. ERP presidential conference. Movie stars attend royal command show in London. The old and new in aviation: Wright plane returns [to U. S.]; reversible propeller. Japanese children give Nippon version of American music. Salmon fishing. Water skiing.

98. Dec. 8, 1948. President attends gift presentation to USS Missouri. Fog in England. French gratitude train. Truman and daughter [at the Washington Press Club]. Chambers and Hiss. WAC Colonel [Mary Hallaren, sworn into Regular Army]. 4–H Club winners. Barbara Ann Scott [arrives in New York]. Sports: Notre Dame-USC; high school championship [Philadelphia]; high school all star football [Charlotte, N. C.]; 6–man wrestling [Montreal].

99. Dec. 10, 1948. Western Berlin votes against Communism. [City Council selects the Social Democrat, Reuter, for Mayor.] U. S. marines land in China as Red peril grows. U. S. evacuees leave [Shanghai] China. Spy inquiry [by Committee on Un-American Activities] reveals papers taken from State Department. California pays tribute to Barkley. Football player of the year [Doak Walker receives Heisman trophy in New York]. Skating Vanities of 1949 [at Chicago]. [War wounded Xmas fund. Skouras theatres join Journal American in launching drive.]

100. Dec. 14, 1948. President Truman presented with turkeys. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt returns [from the United Nations meeting in Paris]. President Prio of Cuba in New York City. Russian airmen flee Iron Curtain [to American zone of Austria]. New type helicopter performs amazing acrobatics in tests [Windsor Locks, Conn.] Water show [at Palm Desert, Calif.] Citation wins at Tanforan. Spirit of Christmas [at Bethlehem and Nazareth].

101. Dec. 17, 1948. Thousands of lives lost in sinking of Chinese vessel. Endurance fliers [over Indio, Calif., in the air 26 days]. Airlift training in Montana. Fog fails to halt Berlin airlift. The season's greetings: Cardinal Spellman [at New York Foundling Hospital]; international greetings [from children of foreign diplomats in Washington]; underwater Santa Claus [at Marineland, Fla.] Kid's boxing [at Madison Square Boy's Club in New York]. French bike race [for the Ile de France championship].

102. Dec. 21, 1948. Britain's royalty at christening of Prince Charles. Aviation: Wright brothers' plane [returned to Smithsonian Institution]. Collier trophy award [Truman honors airplane builder Bell and research engineer Stack for supersonic speed]. Wrecked C–47 saved [takes off from Illinois wheat fields]. Zanuck honored [for "Gentlemen's Agreement"]. Pro football champions [Eagles vs. Cardinals, Browns vs. Bills]. Boat parade opens Fort Lauderdale fishing festival. Barbara Ann Scott along Broadway [champion on skates].

103. Dec. 24, 1948. Headliners of 1948: Democracy vs. Communism [Berlin airlift. Czechoslovakia falls to Reds. Masaryk a suicide]. Marshall Plan signed by President. Italian Christian Democratic Party defeats Communists. In France, Reds aim to sabotage Marshall Plan. Mrs. Kosenkina jumps from consulate window to escape Reds. Reds sweep across China. State of Israel proclaimed. Bernadotte and Ghandi murdered. India gains independence. Japanese war criminals hanged. Japan hit by earthquake. Truman elected. Elizabeth Bentley, Chambers, and Hiss [in spy scandal]. Floods in Pacific Northwest. Pershing dies at 87. Eisenhower becomes president of Columbia University. Truman honors Bell and Stack for rocket plane. Air Forces' B–36 takes off. Wilhelmina abdicates, and Juliana assumes crown. Winthrop Rockefeller marries coal miner's daughter. King George and Queen Elizabeth married 25 years. Royal baby, Prince Charles, with Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

104. Dec. 28, 1948. Rescue saga of 13 men marooned on Greenland icecap. Rome: war veterans riot [demanding increase of pensions]. Long Island: Shinnecock lighthouse [razed]. China gold rush [bank places gold on sale]. Stage and screen stars entertain wounded vets [Broadway columnist Ed Sullivan arranges show]. Petrillo signs contract for musicians. Warm Springs kids flown home for the holidays. Connie Mack celebrates 86th birthday. Swimming forum in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.