Palisades Park, New Jersey]. World awaits Nuremberg verdict.
Paris—the search for peace. Russia parades might!
© 7Aug46; MP1010.
99. Aug. 10, 1946. Atomic bombs. [Bikini Blast.] Explosion of atomic
bomb number 5; [the aftermath]. Hiroshima—one year after [grim
monument to the power of the atom]. "Can man control atomic power?"
© 10Aug46; MP1053.
100. Aug. 14, 1946. Lightning sets tanker afire. The Trumans go home
[to Independence, Missouri] to vote. Earthquakes. Caribbean area
hit. Tribute to F. D. R. [at Campobello Island, New Brunswick]. Atom
bomb city [Oak Ridge, Tennessee].
© 14Aug46; MP1054.
101. Aug. 17, 1946. Postscripts to war! Film report from Germany:
U-boat nest destroyed; dump Nazi poison gas. Palestine! New tension
grips Middle East. Rio hails Eisenhower. Welsh bards honor Princess
Elizabeth.
© 17Aug46; MP1066.
102. Aug. 21, 1946. National aquaplane regatta [at Hermosa Beach,
California]. Brazil—new honors for Ike! Crisis over Trieste. Mr.
Truman takes a walk. U. S., Britain clash over ship rescue. World's
largest bomber [the XB–36].
© 21Aug46; MP1067.
103. Aug. 24, 1946. Truman on vacation voyage. Tornado twisters hit
Minnesota! Rumanian war criminals on trial. Rebuild Dnieprostroy Dam
[in Russia]. Palestine ... British tighten grip. Soap-box Derby—big
league stuff [at Akron, Ohio].
© 24Aug46; MP1077.
104. Aug. 28, 1946. Peace crisis! Ultimatum to Marshal Tito. Atom
bomb—Blandy brings Bikini report. Near East—Trans-Jordan awaits UN
decision. What to wear? Designers say, "Scarfs." The farmer takes a
tank. Climbing season at new peak [at Canada's Bugaboo Glacier].
© 28Aug46; MP1078.
1946/47.
1. Aug. 31, 1946. Football is back! Cyprus—British intern 2,000
refugees. Film log: President's cruise. Top of the world! New
supplies for Mont Blanc. Everything goes double in Pawpaw
[Michigan].
© 31Aug46; MP1096.
2. Sept. 4, 1946. Cloudburst isolates resort [at York Beach, Maine].
Football! Joe College grooms for record year. Estonian refugees get
temporary haven [Miami, Florida]. Bermuda—Presidential fish story.
Baby contest: small fry sizzle [at Asbury Park, New Jersey]. Paris
incident [Foreign Minister Molotov walks out on festivities]. Thar
she blows! Boom in whaling industry [off the coast of Chile].
© 4Sep46; MP1097.
3. Sept. 7, 1946. Yugoslavia—last chapter? Mediterranean: U. S. Navy
on the move. Sky rescue: soldier shot out of P–61. Dame Fashion
says, "Put a feather in your cap." First pictures—crisis in India.
World's speedboat record.
© 7Sep46; MP1117.
4. Sept. 11, 1946. Ice show aids vets. First pictures—Greek King
regains throne. Football—who will stop Army's march? Veterans of
Foreign Wars, 47th National Encampment. World Series of the dance.
© 11Sep46; MP1118.
5. Sept. 14, 1946. Golf—$10,000—winner takes all. A voyage to
Palestine. Beauty, talent, brains! Miss America 1946. Byrnes on
Germany.
© 14Sep46; MP1174.
6. Sept. 18, 1946. Headline people: Mark Clark reports on Austria;
Howard Hughes flies again; Monty makes first visit to U. S.
Lourdes—prisoners' pilgrimage. Dodgers vs. Cardinals.
© 18Sep46; MP1175.
7. Sept. 21, 1946. Labor crisis grips U. S. Crash landing; burning
plane lands safely. Is this the world's fattest man? Aftermath of
Yugoslavia incident. World Series fever.
© 21Sep46; MP1176.
8. Sept. 25, 1946. Little Olympics [in Berlin]. Squatters' siege
ends. Truman silences Wallace. Man meets gorilla [at Bronx zoo].
Battle of Britain—six years after.
© 25Sep46; MP1177.
9. Sept. 28, 1946. Wallace ouster ends Capital crisis. Happy
birthday! Fabulous party for Maharajah. First pictures: Newfoundland
air rescue. Army rolls on [West Point vs. Villanova]; Chicago Bears
vs. Washington Redskins.
© 28Sep46; MP1208.
10. Oct. 2, 1946. World's championship rodeo. Report from Shanghai.
"Oscars" for fashion designers. First flying post office. Employ the
handicapped—America mobilizes.
© 2Oct46; MP1209.
11. Oct. 5, 1946. Greek King goes home. Indians charge Manhattan
fraud. Moscow mourns [Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin]. President sees
some football [Oklahoma vs. Army].
© 5Oct46; MP1232.
12. Oct. 9, 1946. First pictures—Greek King in Athens! Headline
people: U. S.-British beauty swap; Eisenhower back in Europe;
humanitarian award [to Barney Balaban]. Voyage of the "Turtle!" Navy
plane spans globe.
© 9Oct46; MP1233.
13. Oct. 12, 1946. World Series 1946. Historic pictures—Nuremberg
last chapter. Football—Columbia sinks Navy.
© 12Oct46; MP1278.
14. Oct. 16, 1946. B–29 flies across top of the world. Voilà, Paris
rides again. Bundles for China. Mexico honors U. S. motion pictures.
Air disaster in French Alps. Scotland—5–star invasion [Eisenhower on
tour].
© 16Oct46; MP1279.
15. Oct. 19, 1946. Truman's speech on meat. Movies strike; film
stars urge arbitration. Nation's two top teams win tough ones [Texas
vs. Oklahoma; Army vs. Michigan].
© 19Oct46; MP1297.
16. Oct. 23, 1946. Byrnes reports on Paris. British Legion hails
Churchill. First Pictures—Windsors in England. Housing—Wyatt sees
end of lumber "bottleneck." Cards win wildest World Series.
© 23Oct46; MP1298.
17. Oct. 26, 1946. Twenty-three straight for Army. SS Queen
Elizabeth—greatest liner sails in peace. Navy Day, 1946.
© 26Oct46; MP1321.
18. Oct. 30, 1946. Clothing gifts—war babies give thanks. Nazi's
last mile. The search for peace: New York City—the opening of the
United Nations.
© 30Oct46; MP1322.
19. Nov. 2, 1946. Navy introduces world's largest helicopter. What's
new at the zoo?—Antelope cervicapra. Latest hair styles from Paris.
Ship news—headline people sail for Europe. Battle of the century:
[Army—Notre Dame].
© 2Nov46; MP1341.
20. Nov. 6, 1946. Speed—Austrian Motorcycle Derby. United
Nations—clash of words. A rugged individualist [Jimmy Garvin age
thirteen]. Remember Lidice. The old college try—pro style [New York
Giants win over Chicago Bears].
© 6Nov46; MP1342.
21. Nov. 9, 1946. Remember "Da Preem"; or, Can this be wrestling?
New housing speeds up! England—royal wedding bells. Big Four meet in
New York. Season roars to climax [for football].
© 9Nov46; MP1370.
22. Nov. 13, 1946. Early-birds hit ski trails. London—movie stars on
command performance. G.O.P. sweeps nation. Football—Eagles beat
Giants.
© 13Nov46; MP1371.
23. Nov. 16, 1946. New Mexico—Army sends V–2 rocket 102 miles up.
Inventor—Robert Fulton—1946. "The battle of the century"—Army vs.
Notre Dame.
© 16Nov46; MP1379.
24. Nov. 20, 1946. Biggest navy skyship! One hundred and eighty
passenger plane makes debut. Divers take fish census. Truman offers
cooperation with G.O.P. Oklahoma—moving day for houses. "Mercy
mission"—aid flown to Colorado snow captives. SS America makes gala
maiden voyage.
© 20Nov46; MP1380.
25. Nov. 23, 1946. Army wallops Penn. Report from Japan—Hirohito
marks new democracy. Jurisdictional dispute—new flare ups in movie
strike. New torpedo sinks U-boat in 10 seconds.
© 23Nov46; MP1403.
26. Nov. 27, 1946. Coal crisis!—U. S. acts against Lewis. New York
says farewell to Jimmy Walker. Tension in India. Nehru in crisis
meeting. Moslems pray. Thousands flee riot areas. Gandhi tours riot
area. Aviation news! New glider—no wings. Raymond Duncan comes home.
© 27Nov46; MP1404.
27. Nov. 30, 1946. Bowl fever [football]. War on intolerance. The
days are flying—towards Christmas. Ready for the holidays. Toys.
Television.
© 30Nov46; MP1416.
28. Dec. 4, 1946. Paramount News presents its 1946 All-America
football team—the eleven greatest.
© 4Dec46: MP1417.
29. © 7Dec46; MP1468.
30. © 11Dec46; MP1469.
31. © 14Dec46; MP1478.
32. © 18Dec46; MP1479.
33. © 21Dec46; MP1506.
34. © 25Dec46; MP1507.
35. © 28Dec46; MP1519.
36. © 1Jan47; MP1520.
37. 2 reels. © 4Jan47; MP1580.
38. © 8Jan47; MP1581.
39. © 11Jan47; MP1603.
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1947/48.
1. © 30Aug47; MP2345.
2. © 3Sep47; MP2346.
3. © 6Sep47; MP2352.
4. © 10Sep47; MP2353.
5. © 13Sep47; MP2359.
6. © 17Sep47; MP2360.
7. © 20Sep47; MP2397.
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10. © 1Oct47; MP2395.
11. © 4Oct47; MP2402.
12. © 8Oct47; MP2403.
13. © 11Oct47; MP2439.
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19. © 1Nov47; MP2481.
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30. © 10Dec47; MP2580.
31. Dec. 13, 1947. Walcott's claim to heavyweight title denied. Days
of violence in Palestine. France: Government demands strike showdown
[Communist leader, Maurice Thorez, speaks]. 105,000 see Notre Dame
crush USC. Bowl game junior size [Philadelphia high school football
championship].
© 13Dec47; MP2593.
32. Dec. 17, 1947. Slowest round-world flight [by George Truman and
Clifford Evans in Piper Cubs]. Plight of Navajo Indians arouses
Nation. T-Men smash counterfeit ring. Santa Claus hits a home run
["Babe" Ruth entertains polio victims]. U.S. skiers ready for winter
Olympics.
© 17Dec47; MP2594.
33. Dec. 20, 1947. U.S. transfers gun boats to Greek Navy. Million
ducks invade Louisiana rice field. Hirohito visits [Hiroshima] first
atomic bomb target. Australia hails sheep dog champion. Big Four
parley fails [end of London Conference and scenes of the dismantling
of German plants for mass shipment to Russia].
© 20Dec47; MP2648.
34. Dec. 24, 1947. NYU cagers outshoot Connecticut. Alan Ladd and
William Demarest [speak in behalf of the Citizens' Food Committee].
To be young at holiday time ... [Santa Claus visits American boys
and girls and war orphans abroad].
© 24Dec47; MP2649.
35. Dec. 27, 1947. Ice-skate ball makes bow [basketball game on
ice]. People in the eyes of the world: "The Angel" [Maurice Tillet,
French wrestler] returns; Russia sends new envoy [Alexandre
Paniushkin, Ambassador to the U.S.]. Police drive homeless from Jap
catacombs. Marshall reports on Big Four [London conference].
Friendship by the shipload [President Auriol expresses the gratitude
of the French for American food].
© 27Dec47; MP2656.
36. Dec. 31, 1947. 1947 sports in review: track and field [Harrison
Dillard, Mel Patton]; swimming [Jimmy McLane]; boxing [Joe Walcott
vs. Joe Louis]; tennis [Jack Kramer]; golf [Lew Worsham, Sammy
Snead, Babe Didrikson Zaharias]; turf [Jet Pilot]; baseball [Yankees
vs. Dodgers]; football [Notre Dame team, Johnny Lujack].
© 31Dec47; MP2657.
37. Jan. 3, 1948. 2 reels. 1947, year of division: Blasts wreck
Texas City; Palestine partition approved; Washington hearings hold
the headlines; fashions, the new look; veto battle makes labor
history; politics—who will it be in '48? The story of the East-West
split.
© 3Jan48; MP2690.
38. Jan. 7, 1948. New York digs out [greatest snowfall in city's
history]. Miss Truman meets the press. Silver Jubilee: Maharajah of
Jaipur honored. Football: Blanchard, Davis, Tucker [of West Point]
in news again.
© 7Jan48; MP2691.
39. Jan. 10, 1948. 1948 Bowl games: Orange Bowl; Cotton Bowl; Rose
Bowl; Sugar Bowl.
© 10Jan48; MP2713.
40. Jan. 14, 1948. Leathernecks sail for Mediterranean. First
Friendship Food arrives in Italy [Naples and Rome]. Ex-King Michael
reaches exile in Switzerland. Congress hears Truman [State of the
Union message].
© 14Jan48; MP2714.
41. Jan. 17, 1948. Winter sports: hockey squads sail for Olympics;
high flying hickory aces [skiing at Bear Mountain, N. Y.]. European
aid program debated [Secretary Marshall before Senate Foreign
Affairs Committee]. Guerrillas on Konitsa front [border warfare in
northern Greece]. Thrill-a-minute air show [Miami].
© 17Jan48; MP2715.
42. Jan. 21, 1948. Silver Skates classic thrills New York.
Anti-royalist riots in Rome. Time for dimes [Margaret Truman;
three-year-old poster-baby, Terry Tullos; the President]. General
Chennault and bride. Montgomery's mission to Ethiopia. Survival in
the air age [report by Chairman Finletter of the President's Air
Policy Commission and a newsreel report on our aircraft industry].
© 21Jan48; MP2716.
43. Jan. 24, 1948. Cold breezes, hot racing at Hialeah. Eisenhower
honored in Philadelphia. Baruch on foreign aid: "Mobilize for
peace." Winter Olympics, last minute preparations [St. Moritz,
Switzerland]. Danger rides the hickory boards [ski-jumping
tournament at Fox River Grove, Ill.].
© 24Jan48; MP2722.
44. Jan. 28, 1948. Secret Nazi papers bared. Russo-German plot
revealed. Innovations: Japan [war widows make toy automobiles from
beer cans]; anti-freeze sailor suit [Navy suits to prevent freezing
in coldest waters]; the newer look [venetian blinds made into a
dress]. Petrillo goes on the record for Congress. U.S.-Canada win
European figure skating championships.
© 28Jan48; MP2723.
45. Jan. 31, 1948. Speed on the boards; Mr. [Gil] Dodds goes to town
again [Knights of Columbus track meet in Boston]. Stronger voice for
U.S. abroad [Foreign Information Service]. News around the globe:
Gandhi breaks five-day fast; [Princess] Elizabeth's food gifts feed
needy; mass marriages in China. Charges and denials; Stassen vs.
Pauley. Wintry regatta for ice boats [Hamilton Bay, Ont.]
© 31Jan48; MP2741.
46. Feb. 4, 1948. U.S. faces crisis in oil. Aid from those who care
[Paulette Goddard distributes CARE packages to French war orphans].
News from fields of science and invention: Navy develops "walking"
barge; safety, no-burn door demonstrated; science probes mysteries
of "silent sound" [at Penn. State College]. Skiing on the land
[Rossland, British Columbia]. Skiing on the sea [Bruce Parker at
Nassau].
© 4Feb48; MP2742.
47. Feb. 7, 1948. Winter Olympics [at] St. Moritz. Canada welcomes
new pioneers [displaced persons from Europe]. India without Gandhi
[includes highlights of his career]. Record indoor mile; Gil Dodds
breaks own world mark [Madison Square Garden].
© 7Feb48; MP2765.
48. Feb. 11, 1948. Hearings on legislation to curb Reds
[Representative Mundt and Attorney General Tom Clark testify].
Gandhi's funeral rites. Skiing [at Leavenworth, Wash., Mont Gabriel,
Que., and by lamplight near Seattle].
© 11Feb48; MP2766.
49. Feb. 14, 1948. Landmark burns; fire destroys historic inn [18th
century stagecoach stop in New Hampshire]. Ike [General Eisenhower]
retires; Bradley new chief of staff. U.S. makes Olympic history [at
St. Moritz: Mrs. Gretchen Fraser is skiing champion; Dick Button is
skating champion. Barbara Ann Scott of Canada is women's figure
skating champion].
© 14Feb48; MP2771.
50. Feb. 18, 1948. Carnival season; fun along the Riviera [from Nice
to Viareggio]. Miracle of Syracuse [a second set of triplets is born
to Mrs. Michael Walker]. Air drama in the French Alps [crash of U.
S. Flying Fortress near Digne]. Hats, Easter preview [New York].
Campaign of mercy [Bob Hope collects President Truman's contribution
to the Red Cross]. Off Miami Beach; spinnaker spectacle [Lipton Cup
race].
© 18Feb48; MP2772.
51. Feb. 21, 1948. First floods of '48 [Mississippi, Ohio and
Tennessee Rivers]. [Winthrop] Rockefeller weds a "Cinderella" [Mrs.
Barbara Sears]. Dewey opens campaign. Irish elections.
French-Spanish frontier reopened. Pope Pius says: use atom solely
for peace. Sports: table tennis, Britisher [Richard Bergmann] wins
world's championship; farewell to Switzerland [U.S. four-man bobsled
team wins one of final events in 1948 Olympics].
© 21Feb48; MP2799.
52. Feb. 25, 1948. Basketball; hottest in the East [NYU vs.
Manhattan College at Madison Square Garden]. Gandhi ashes scattered
on sacred waters. In brotherhood there is strength [messages for
Brotherhood Week from General Eisenhower and high school students].
King and queen of figure skating [Dick Button and Barbara Ann Scott
win world championships at Davos, Switzerland].
© 25Feb48; MP2798.
53. Feb. 28, 1948. Joe Louis—gloves across the sea [Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Louis sail for England on the "Queen Mary."] Ethiopia: Selassie
attends Epiphany rites. India: Mountbatten calls on Maharajah [of
Bikaner]. Fashions. Political fireworks begin [President Truman
speaks at Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner; Henry Wallace speaks in
Florida; Governor Jim Folsom of Alabama speaks on the Solid South's
political dissatisfaction].
© 28Feb48; MP2820.
54. Mar. 3, 1948. Communists control Czechoslovakia. Truman the
tourist [in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands]. Eisenhower in
civilian clothes. Palestine and the United Nations: Warren R. Austin
outlines the position of the U.S.; illegal immigrants to Palestine
intercepted by British Navy; Arab volunteers trained for guerilla
warfare against the Jews; the Ben Yehuda street explosion in
Jerusalem.
© 3Mar48; MP2809.
55. Mar. 6, 1948. Turf classic [Santa Anita Handicap in California].
Greek Army traps rebels at frontier [Yanina, near the Albanian
frontier]. A soldier remembers a promise [Colonel John Hanlon
returns bedsheets borrowed in 1944 from the housewives of Hemroulle,
Belgium]. First pictures from Czechoslovakia [Communist Premier
Klement Gottwald denounces ministers of the former government;
President Benes bows to Red demands].
© 6Mar48; MP2831.
56. Mar. 10, 1948. Basketball: Notre Dame ends NYU's [winning]
streak. Washington: Czech envoy quits to oppose Reds. Republicans
name Stassen and Warren. Earl Long wins in Louisiana. Sport season
hears the call of the mild; [ski-jumping on Iron Mountain, Michigan;
New York Giants at Phoenix, Arizona; Boston Red Sox at Sarasota,
Florida].
© 10Mar48; MP2830.
57. Mar. 13, 1948. Baseball: world champions [Yankees] warm up in
Florida; [Pittsburgh Pirates in Hollywood]. Truman and MacArthur
will accept if nominated. Greek Army pushes border offensive. A
queen comes home [figure-skating champion, Barbara Ann Scott in
Montreal]. Top Turf thriller [Salmagundi wins Santa Anita Derby].
© 13Mar48; MP2856.
58. Mar. 17, 1948. Ship news: "Elizabeth" brings in celebrities [J.
Arthur Rank, Mrs. Gretchen Fraser, Dick Button, former King Michael
and Queen Helen of Rumania]. Dewey wins first primary [New
Hampshire]. All eyes on ice champion [Barbara Ann Scott welcomed by
Prime Minister Mackenzie King in Ottawa]. Tragedy behind the Iron
Curtain [suicide of Czech Foreign Minister—Jan Masaryk; other scenes
in Prague].
© 17Mar48; MP2857.
59. Mar. 20, 1948. Eighty-day pin derby [American Bowling Conference
Annual Tournament in Detroit]. Spring football: civilian coach
[George Sauer] leads Navy. British repeal 75 per cent tax on U.S.
films [comments by Eric Johnston]. People in the eyes of the world:
[Dick Button, figure skating champion]; romance out of a story book
[radio singer Jane Froman marries airline pilot John Curtis Burn in
South Miami]; [Major General Bennett E.] Meyers goes to prison.
Byrnes asks action on Russia. Baseball: life with the Dodgers [in
Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic].
© 20Mar48; MP2884.
60. Mar. 24, 1948. Peace in a free world: America hears the price
[as President] Truman denounces Soviet. Prague [Jan Masaryk's
funeral]. Brussels [Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and
Luxembourg sign a 50–year agreement]. Paris [meeting of the 16
nations which are cooperating in the European Recovery Program].
[President Truman in New York for St. Patrick's Day ceremonies;
shakes hands with Governor Dewey].
© 24Mar48; MP2885.
61. Mar. 27, 1948. Twisters rip through nine states. Hollywood
awards its Oscars [Academy awards presented to Celeste Holm, Loretta
Young, and Ronald Colman]. 50–1 shot captures Grand National
[Sheila's Cottage wins at Aintree, England; two typical Sweepstakes
winners in New York City].
© 27Mar48; MP2915.
62. Mar. 31, 1948. Report on U.S. defense; match Russia's might
[Secretary of Defense Forrestal makes recommendations to Senate
Armed Services Committee for expansion of U.S. military forces;
Secretary of the Navy Sullivan reports the presence of alien
submarines off our shores]. Art with war record [German art
treasures exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington].
New tests for American buzz bombs [JB–2's tested at Eglin Field,
Fla.]. Golden Gloves: East vs. West [Dick Guerrero vs. Leland Pillen
and Luis Ortiz vs. Wallace Smith at Madison Square Garden].
© 31Mar48; MP2916.
63. Apr. 3, 1948. [Guy] Lombardo sets speedboat mark. Air Force
honors a pioneer [Brigadier General Billy Mitchell]. Roosevelt sons
back Ike [Eisenhower]. Italy at the crossroads [of Democracy and
Communism]. The light of faith: [Hollywood Bowl for Easter; cherry
blossoms in Washington, D. C.; Easter parade on New York's Fifth
Avenue].
© 3Apr48; MP2937.
64. Apr. 7, 1948. Top-flight basketball; Oilers [of Oklahoma] win
Olympic trials [from Kentucky University]. Fashion news: special
from Paris. Senate [Armed Services] Committee hears Wallace. A
salute to the U.S. Army [Army Day, 1948].
© 7Apr48; MP2938.
65. Apr. 10, 1948. Foreign aid rushed under new law [Marshall Plan].
Ex-dishwasher [Greek immigrant] buys a [Pennsylvania] town.
Canada-U.S. amity hailed at Williamsburg, Va. Now it's Grandpa Ike.
Trousseau for a princess [Ann of Bourbon-Parma]. Mountbatten visits
Burma.
© 10Apr48; MP2956.
66. Apr. 14, 1948. Water classic [Dixie water ski championships,
Cypress Gardens, Fla.] Hoffman heads E.R.P. [European Recovery
Program]. Marshall leads U.S. at parley of the Americas [at Bogota,
Colombia]. Primary upset: [Harold E.] Stassen victor in Wisconsin.
First pictures: Soviet, British planes crash in Berlin.
© 14Apr48; MP2957.
67. Apr. 17, 1948. Hockey champions [Toronto team defeats Detroit
team in Stanley Cup finals]. Lewis ends coal strike [meeting of
Senator Styles Bridges, Mr. Lewis, and Ezra Van Horn]. Kiddie on the
keys [four-year old Jerard Jennings plays the piano, xylophone, and
drums]. Italy's hour of decision [pre-election demonstrations].
© 17Apr48; MP2987.
68. Apr, 21, 1948. Bogota's reign of terror [scenes of the rioting
which followed the assassination of Jorge Gaitan]. Fur crying out
loud [fur coats for men in Hollywood]. Russia's Supreme Council in
session [Stalin applauded]. England pays homage to an American
[royal family present as Mrs. Roosevelt unveils statue of her
husband in Grosvenor Square, London].
© 21Apr48; MP2988.