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6. Sept. 17, 1946, News reports from Europe: Reception at

Versailles; Nazi gang in last plea; more trouble in Trieste;

destroying Siegfried Line. Film flashes: giant C–54 catches fire,

modernistic baptism. Sports: rodeo spills; Salmon Derby; water baby

[three year-old David Hughes].

7. Sept. 20, 1946. Secretary Wallace sees President and says "no

more speeches." Action flashes of world news: aftermath at Bikini;

"squatters" in London; P–84 flies 611 m.p.h.; 1–1/2 million dollar

[Australian] wool blaze. Movie stars make goodwill air tour of Latin

America. Lehr finds new fishing angle. Spills and thrills at horse

jumping meet in Australia.

8. Sept. 24, 1946. Heroic rescue of 18 from plane crash in

Newfoundland. President Truman fires Wallace from Cabinet.

Personalities in the news: Marshall Montgomery, General Clark,

Archbishop of Canterbury. Berlin rebuilds slowly from ruins of war.

Celebrations honor American history at Hartford, Connecticut.

All-golden horses vie in spectacular show in Missouri. Football is

here; West Point, Pittsburgh, Baltimore.

9. Sept. 27, 1946. America buries five fliers shot down over

Yugoslavia. Religion: Pope Pius XII blesses Italian Boy Scouts;

Catholics attend Holy Hour in Chicago. Foreign events: China teems

[with activity]; reclaiming flooded lands. Greece prepares [for

return of King]. Canadian fishermen catch record haul of giant

salmon. U. S. launches first flying post office to speed the mails.

Sports: boat racing, rodeo thriller.

10. Oct. 1, 1946. Allied court finds Nazi gang guilty at Nuremberg.

Stalin leads Soviet big-wigs at funeral of President Kalinin.

British speed flyer killed in jet plane trying for record. Fred

Allen has his say at banquet to honor Variety Club. New bathing

suits are made of wood. The pigskin parade: West Point; Washington;

Champaign. California voters are urged to go to polls in November.

11. Oct. 4, 1946. Navy plane breaks world's non-stop distance

record. Greece gives King George ovation on return from exile. U. S.

Navy explodes 500,000 pounds of TNT in Idaho test. Movie executive

[Barney Balaban] is honored for charity work. Australian wool

auction provides some wild bidding. Sports: women's amateur golf;

roller-skating spectacle.

12. Oct. 8, 1946. Nazi leaders hear death sentences as war trial

ends. Sports: the World Series. Football: New York; Los Angeles;

Austin.

13. Oct. 11, 1946. Secretary Byrnes in Paris speaks on Stalin's "no

war" statement. U. S. Army B–29 flies over top of world, Honolulu to

Cairo. Names in the news: Paul H. Griffith, Chief Justice Vinson, W.

Averell Harriman, Jack L. Warner, General Eisenhower. National

cotton-picking contest held in Arkansas. Film flashes: farmers

battle ducks; Red Cross aids Chinese. Sports: World Series;

football.

14. Oct. 15, 1946. President Truman lifts controls on meat prices.

News reports from abroad: SS Queen Elizabeth; demonstration in

Trieste. General Stilwell, hero of Burma, dies in California. Vast

throng sees colorful "Veiled Prophet" parade. Hollywood stars seek

arbitration in movie strike. The pigskin parade: Ann Arbor,

Philadelphia, Baltimore, Los Angeles.

15. Oct. 18, 1946. Peace Conference in Paris ended; Byrnes returns.

Windsors in England together—first time since abdication. Record

salmon run battles Canadian rapids to spawn. Navy reveals new

electric catapult ["Electro-pult"] to launch planes. Meat on the

table; livestock rolls to market again. Cardinals win world series.

16. Oct. 22, 1946. U. S. Navy reveals wartime secrets on

anniversary. "Queen Elizabeth" makes first trip as luxury liner.

News flashes from abroad: Greek demonstrations; General Eisenhower

tries his golf in Scotland. Football highlights: Army vs. Columbia;

Tennessee vs. Alabama; Texas vs. Arkansas; U.C.L.A. vs. California.

17. Oct. 25, 1946. President Truman opens UN General Assembly in New

York. Sports: hockey season; riding the rapids; girl acrobats. Trap

for baboons in zoo is big flop; they're too smart.

18. Oct. 29, 1946. News flashes: Navy displays [helicopter];

notables sail [on the Elizabeth]; hunting buffalo [at Elk Island,

Canada]. Lounging fashions. New Zealand woman has slippery hobby—she

tames eels. Football highlights: Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New

York, Iowa City.

19. Nov. 1, 1946. U. S., Soviet debate disarmament in UN Assembly.

End of maritime strike starts flow of goods. "Winnie" Churchill has

laugh with 8th Army veterans. Fighting corvettes of wartime turned

into luxury liners. Sports flashes: thirteen year-old Samson [Jimmy

Garvin]; fishing paradise [in Australia]; motorcycle speed [in

Austria].

20. Nov. 5, 1946. Big Four foreign ministers meet in New York. Names

in the news: President Truman; U. S. movie stars [in England];

Darryl Zanuck. Aviation: antiaircraft training; planes crash [in

Navy tests]. Union craftsmen display skill in St. Louis show. June

Haver hailed as Rock Island's Cinderella girl. Football highlights:

Baltimore, Evanston, Athens.

21. Nov. 8, 1946. Election landslide gives Republicans Congress

control. Hindu-Moslem feud flares in violence throughout India:

Nehru attacked; Ghandi in Calcutta. Palestine crisis increases with

new outbreaks: terrorists bomb [Jerusalem depot]; refugees

transferred. Cashier [William Arthur Nickel] arrested; faces charges

in $750,000 swindle. Movie stars hailed at royal command film

performance. Canadian pulp logs sent down river in record drive.

22. Nov. 11, 1946. Remarkable films of new V–2 rocket tests by U. S.

Army. News flashes: Molotov at White House; Armistice Day

ceremonies; Admiral Byrd honored; Windsors arrive in U. S.; British

models visit here. Something new in autos; you can fly it or drive

it. Game of the year: Army-Notre Dame football classic.

23. Nov. 15, 1946, President Truman asks cooperation of G.O.P.

Congress. Hunt [for] crashed U. S. airman among Lolo tribes in

China. King leads Britain in impressive rites on Armistice Day;

British honor American pigeon for war feat. U. S. progress at sea

and in the air: American queen of the seas; largest transport plane.

Giant parade marks Armistice Day in Iola, Kansas. Sports: Melbourne

Cup race; one hundred year-old golfer.

24. Nov. 19, 1946. Bombs are hurled in jurisdictional Hollywood

strike. News and action film reports: Navy tests new torpedo; Japs

get new constitution; Mrs. America 1946. Football Titans keep

winning; Notre Dame vs. Northwestern; Army vs. Penn.

25. Nov. 22, 1946. V–2 rocket camera photographs earth from 65 miles

up. U. S. in showdown with Lewis over soft coal strike. Along

Broadway ["The Razor's Edge" premiere]. International week

celebrated in New Orleans. Movietone's All-America [outstanding

football players of 1946].

26. Nov. 26, 1946. John L. Lewis stands trial for contempt. Foreign

affairs: British leave Egypt; new President of Chile. Arts and

sciences: Roosevelt statue; sun eclipse; Canadian dam. Football

climax: Notre Dame-Tulane; Yale-Harvard; U.C.L.A.-U.S.C.;

Illinois-Northwestern.

27. Nov. 29, 1946. Famed Monte Cassino Abbey to be rebuilt out of

ruins of war. Three more countries become members of United Nations.

News flashes: drive-in bank; radio-controlled plow; sheep shearing;

Santa Claus Lane; hand-painted bathing suits. Sports:

Woodcock-Martin bout; fox hunt; skiing in Lapland.

28. Dec. 3, 1946. Rescue epic in air crash in the Alps. Once mighty

Normandie's last mile. Army-Navy football. Seventy-eight thousand

see Penn defeat Cornell in grid classic. Trippi runs wild as Georgia

beats Georgia Tech. Notre Dame ends season unbeaten, downing U.S.C.,

26–6.

29. Dec. 6, 1946. Byrd's Antarctic expedition leaves for South Pole.

News of the nation: Washington [John L. Lewis fined]; Milwaukee

[massed picketing and violence at Allis-Chalmers]; Wright Field

[German scientists continue U. S. aviation experiments]; Chicago

[4–H Club picks perfect specimens of American youth]; new President

of Mexico [Miguel Aleman] sworn in. Spectacular plays of grid

season's last big games. Sports: tennis in Australia; mystery game

in mud.

30. Dec. 10, 1946. Atlanta hotel fire, worst in U. S. history, takes

terrible toll. Soft coal strike called off by John L. Lewis.

President Truman awards seven medals to hero soldier. World events:

London, New York, Italy, Lebanon. Ready for Merry Christmas? So are

Florida fish. Sports: a dog's life in Toledo; wrestling rough house.

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26. Nov. 25, 1947. The royal wedding [of Princess Elizabeth and

Prince Philip]. Football: Yale-Harvard; Notre Dame-Tulane; USC-UCLA.

27. Nov. 28, 1947. New French Premier and Cabinet fight crisis of

strikes. Action flashes from abroad: grasshoppers plague Australia;

Vienna building razed. Aviation: largest land plane in world [XC–99]

in test flight. Movie executives purge Hollywood of Communists. Film

servicemen are decorated in mass ceremony [Darryl F. Zanuck, Ben

Lyon, Lon McCallister, and others]. "City of Kansas City," first

intra-Missouri streamliner. Sports: Yankees-Cleveland pro football;

girl wrestlers.

28. Dec. 2, 1947. UN votes to divide Palestine into Arab and Jewish

states. Washington headliners: President Truman visits the Freedom

Train in Washington; Carl Gray is appointed head of Veterans'

Administration; Samuel Goldwyn is honored for his war effort; Jesse

Donaldson becomes the new U. S. Postmaster General; Robert Hannegan

buys St. Louis baseball club. Royal newlyweds [Princess Elizabeth

and Prince Philip] spend honeymoon in the country. Tyrone Power ends

goodwill air tour of 32,000 miles. Army-Navy football classic. Penn

defeats Cornell.

29. Dec. 5, 1947. Troops and police fight Red strikers in French

crisis. Turmoil marks UN partition of Palestine. Flashes of action:

Canadian logging; army flights [in New Zealand and the southern

Alps]. Livestock champions compete for prizes at Chicago show.

European boxers put on exciting bout in Paris. 1947 football

highlights.

30. Dec. 9, 1947. French crisis points East-West conflict on

Marshall plan: Big Four parley in deadlock; Dulles confers in Paris;

French Communists; Paris Express wrecked; U. S. Friendship Train.

Tension mounts in Arab-Jewish situation. News of atomic development:

Chicago [celebration at the University of Chicago of fifth atomic

birthday]; Washington [announcement by Atomic Energy Commission

Chairman Lilienthal]. Vacation fashions. Roman Catholic High School

wins city grid championship [at Philadelphia]. Notre Dame ends

season unbeaten, routing USC.

31. Dec. 12, 1947. News of the Nation: Truman opens Everglades

National Park; Piper Cubs end world flight; counterfeit ring

smashed. France pays final tribute to General Le Clerc, Holland

children, even princesses, hail St. Nicholas. Sports: Johnny Lujack

honored; Australian tennis [John Bromwich vs. Jim Brink; Colin Long

and Billy Sidwell vs. Adrian Quist and Jim Brink]; French fencing;

ice skating champ [Barbara Ann Scott].

32. Dec. 16, 1947. Soviet Russia takes drastic steps to combat

inflation. Japanese Emperor sees atom-bombed city of Hiroshima.

Names in the news: Admiral Nimitz retires; Admiral Denfeld succeeds

Admiral Nimitz; $50,000 Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund check;

Mrs. George Skouras re-christens a Friendship food ship. Cardinal

Spellman holds a Christmas party for New York foundlings. Cleveland

Browns defeat football Yanks for title.

33. Dec. 19, 1947. Communist general strike in Rome fails amid

scenes of riot. Last U. S. troops leave Italy. Congress passes bill

for interim aid to Europe. A message [on food] from Alan Ladd and

William Demarest. U. S. Army produces its own blizzards for arctic

tests [at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey]. Girls, these mighty muscle men

display perfect physiques [Joffre L'Heureaux wins title of Mr.

Canada at Montreal]. Children of foreign diplomats wish you a Happy

New Year.

34. Dec. 23, 1947. Secretary Marshall home [from London Conference]

with report on parley failure. The world food situation: Jimmy

Stewart pleads for food conservation; Friendship [Train] food in

France; Secretary Anderson's food report. Aviation: XB–47 jet bomber

[tested]. Reduce hidden taxes, urges Congressman Dingell. Fashions

for skating. Olympic ski stars: Canadian Olympic ski training;

skiing in Switzerland, in New Zealand.

35. Dec. 26, 1947. Highlights of 1947. World events: Legal end of

war; the Marshall Plan; Indian independence; Palestine divided;

British royalty on tour. News of the Nation: Hurricane in Florida,

Louisiana and Mississippi; sea lions; Congressional committee probes

war contracts. Aviation: Navy jet plane; Army jet bomber, the Flying

Wing; Howard Hughes' Flying Boat. The feminine world. Lew Lehr's

specialties. Disaster and spectacle: Texas City razed by explosions

and fire; Vistula River ice jam; Iceland's Mt. Nekla erupts anew.

Science: Bavarian observatory records sun in eclipse; V–2 rocket

launched from "Midway."

36. Dec. 30, 1947, Heaviest snowfall in history of New York

paralyzes city. Wallace will run for president on 3rd party ticket.

News flashes: Philadelphia fire; Friendship Food Train in Paris

[Drew Pearson is made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor]; Navy jet

fighter [Panther, on trial flight]. This is no place for men with

cold feet [Iceberg Athletic Club goes into the water at Coney

Island]. Chicago Cards beat Philadelphia for football title.

Volume 31, 1947/48.

1. Dec. 31, 1947. Sports thrills of 1947: Horse racing; auto racing;

golf; baseball; football; fishing; winter sports; boxing; wrestling;

water sports.

2. Jan. 6, 1948. First films made inside an atomic plant in Canada.

Tojo takes stand in war crimes trial at Tokyo. Freaks of weather:

Louisiana tornado; floods in France. Hail to 1948: [New Year's

celebrations in New York and London]. Mummers in fancy dress strut

their stuff despite rain [Philadelphia]. Pasadena hails its

Tournament of Roses parade [General Bradley is Grand Marshal]. A

message [on food] from John Garfield. Bowl football: Rose Bowl,

Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Sugar Bowl.

3. Jan. 8, 1948. Truman reports to Congress on state of Union.

Michael of Rumania forced by Reds to abdicate throne. Film reports

of news events: Contraband for Palestine; Marines to Mediterranean;

New York State bonus [for veterans]. Pasadena hails its Tournament

of Roses Parade. Sports: Bear Mountain ski jumping; Golden Gloves

boxing.

4. Jan. 13, 1948. Senate Committee hears Marshall urge his plan.

News events from abroad: De Gaulle at St. Étienne; Haile Selassie;

Jap pay telephone. Acrobatics on high mark All-American Air Show at

Miami. Sports: Los Angeles Open Golf [Tournament]; [New England]

Sled Dog race; college ski meet [at Sun Valley, Idaho]; junior ski

school [at Dartmouth College].

5. Jan. 16, 1948. U. S. Senate probes market trading by insiders;

Harold Stassen and General Graham at inquiry. News flashes: Burma

independence; U. S. submarines [being reconditioned] for Turkey;

Chennault weds in China. Silver Skates [races at Madison Square

Garden].

6. Jan. 20, 1948. News of the Nation: Eisenhower in Philadelphia;

Chicago gas blast; air crash in Maryland; feeding starving deer

[Bear Mountain, N. Y.]; Mary Pickford in Canada. California sends

shipload of milk to Europe's needy. Chimpanzees in Belgium put on

artistic show. Sports: ski jumping [Fox River Grove, Ill.]; Middle

Atlantic skating [Newburgh, N. Y.]; Australian yacht race.

7. Jan. 23, 1948. Petrillo defends Musicians' Union at

[Congressional] labor inquiry. Twenty men play 400 instruments, all

harmonicas [Germany]. Science: Supersonic rocket car [Muroc Air

Base, Calif.]. Navy fliers test immersion suit for icy waters.

Sports: N. Y. U.-Colgate basketball, skiing in [Wengen] Switzerland.

8. Jan. 27, 1948. Stassen-Pauley clash on "Inside" market raiding.

Jerusalem today [scenes of strife between Jews and Arabs]. Gandhi

ends fast; India and Pakistan accept mediation. Chinese inflation

hits weddings. "Voice of America" to tell the world the truth about

U. S. [the Smith-Mundt bill]. Gold rush of '49 is re-enacted on site

of El Dorado. Milk ship sails [from California] with cargo for

Europe's needy. Sports: Bob Feller signs up [with Cleveland];

Canadian iceboating [Hamilton, Ont.]; family of golfers [the

Bauers].

9. Jan. 30, 1948. Millions of Hindus bathe in Ganges in holy

festival. Record cold wave hits Nation, halts vital river traffic.

U. S. Navy displays new amphibious barge. "Gentlemen's Agreement"

named best picture of 1947 [John Garfield accepts award in behalf of

Producer Darryl Zanuck]. Baby tigers learn about circus life at very

early age. Sports: Skiing in Rockies [International Intercollegiate

Ski Meet near Rossland, British Columbia]; ski jumping [Arne Ulland,

Arthur Tokle, and others at Dubuque, Iowa]; boxing in Paris [Marcel

Cerdan vs. Giovanni Manca].

10. Feb. 3, 1948. The world mourns Mahatma Gandhi, slain by

assassin. Film highlights of world news: Pope thanks U. S. [for

Friendship Train food]; Friendship food burned [Paris]; Marines sail

for Mediterranean; Montreal airport clears snow. Spectacular parade

opens St. Paul's winter carnival. Sports: Winter Olympics begin [St.

Moritz]; Santa Anita racing; Millrose Games [Madison Square Garden].

11. Feb. 6, 1948. U. S., Canada join in mercy flight to frozen

[village in Labrador]. [King] Leopold in Havana. French dam [on

River Rhone]. Exercise Snowdrop [paratroop maneuvers at Pine Camp,

N. Y.]. Four are now nine, as Badgett quads enjoy a birthday.

Hollywood spotlight; "Look" awards [presented by Bob Hope to

Twentieth Century-Fox for "Gentlemen's Agreement"]. Major Humphrey

asks continuation of rent controls [Minneapolis]. Sports: speed

skating [St. Paul]; iceboat regatta [Williams Bay, Wis.]; school for

umpires [West Palm Beach, Fla.]

12. Feb. 10, 1948. The funeral of Gandhi at Delhi. General

Eisenhower retires as U. S. Chief of Staff [administers oath to his

successor, General Bradley, in presence of President Truman].

Operation Paradog uses huskies for air rescue work [U. S. Air Forces

in Labrador]. Winter Olympic games [at St. Moritz]; skiing [Henri

Creiller of France]; men's figure skating [Richard Button of U. S.];

women's figure skating [Barbara Ann Scott of Canada].

13. Feb. 13, 1948. Record cold spell. Ohio River frozen; Niagara

Falls frozen. Palestine report: bomb wrecks newspaper building ["The

Palestine Post"]; British blow up surplus ammunition. Truman becomes

president of the Boy Scouts. Doggy bluebloods parade for prizes in

New York show [Westminster Kennel Club]. New Orleans Mardi Gras

[Margaret Truman among visitors]. Viareggio carnival [Italy].

Sports: St. Paul ski jump [Eugene Wilson, champion]; Lipton Cup

yacht race [Miami, Fla.].

14. Feb. 17, 1948. Gov. Dewey raps administration's peace policy.

Ohio River ice breakup. Fighting in Greece. Pope and scientists

[meeting of Papal Academy of Science at Vatican]. Rockefeller

wedding [Palm Beach, Fla.]. Sports from abroad: world table tennis

[Wembley, England]; Cerdan boxing [Paris]; Olympic four-man bobsled

[St. Moritz].

15. Feb. 20, 1948. Chinese troops move. De Valera out as premier [of

Ireland]. Quadruplets [born] in Pennsylvania. Alien baby deported

[to Denmark]. National drive for American brotherhood. Golden Gloves

boxing slugfest [in New York]. Housewife [in Chicago] fasts in fight

on high cost of living.

16. Feb. 24, 1948. President decries reactionaries as "floogie

birds." U. S. food for China. Featherweight helicopter. Carnival in

Rio. Films of Tokyo Rose who "entertained" G. I.'s in Pacific. Ming

leads a dog's life, birthday party and all. Navy wrestling [Brooklyn

Navy YMCA]. Ishpeming [Michigan] ski jumping.

17. Feb. 27, 1948. The tragedy of Palestine; bombing in Jerusalem;

UN crisis over Palestine; Jewish illegal ship [on way to Palestine].

Czechoslovakia taken over by Communists. Truman in Caribbean.

Eisenhower in civvies. Los Angeles hails Freedom Train. 15–1

longshot beats Armed and Assault in Hialeah upset.

18. Mar. 2, 1948. Truman in Cuba [welcomed by U. S. Navy at

Guantanamo]. Belgian bed sheets [returned by U. S. Army]. French

kids get U. S. food [at Billancourt]. Tokyo black market. Aviation:

Navy jet fighter FJ–1 [San Diego]. Hollywood spotlight, premier of

"Call Northside 777." Sports: Hialeah racing; French skiing [at

Superbagneres]; kids boxing [Greenwich Village, New York]; Barbara

Ann Scott [skating champion in Paris].