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Show "World Varieties" Smash Hit in 1 947 : Atom, U. N., Flying Disks, 'Hamlet' Fill Passing Year 'By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. FLORIDA, 1947-1948. The last pink blush of the setting sun has faded from the Indian river. The palm fronds are quiet and only the plaintive peep of the last wakeful bird can be heard over the whisper of the waters. A year has begun, but only the baby owlets realize that something Is different. Life has begun for their generation as it begins each winter almost precisely at this day and hour. I'm looking through my diary. New Year's Day Little news, but down the street the church bells ring and for some reason I go to the bookcase and pick up "Pilgrim's Progress." Weave a long quotation into my broadcast and very glad I did so many people liked it. Back through heavy snow to dinner. January 6 Here is a red card with the seal of the United States on it: "House of $ ministers' conference in Moscow. Baltimore Sun's Paul Ward "and Washington Post's Ferdinand Kuhn addressed the overseas writers off-the-record. What they said confirmed con-firmed other off-the-record conferences confer-ences with high officials. Not much hope for Russian-American amity. Couldn't Get Maple Sugar May 21 Hear violent argument "Vermont maple sugar is better than Ohio maple sugar. . . ." Affirmative: Affirm-ative: Presidential Secretary William Wil-liam Hassett of Vermont. Negative: Dr. Louis Tuckerman, bureau of standards, nuclear physicist of Ohio. Later broadcast my willingness willing-ness to judge if given samples. June 5 Secretary of State Marshall, Mar-shall, at Harvard, outlines ideas on European recovery. June 11 Dinner and forum. Dr. Chisholm, Canadian minister of health, gave a splendid talk. He believes be-lieves it will take a lot of education educa-tion to change human beings from "the kind of people who go to war n c r.Ajii i Representatives, admit bearer to Radio Gallery." A new, Republican Republi-can dominated congress, the first In 14 years. The new "ins" riding high. The "o u t s" pretty gloomy. The Gallup Gal-lup poll showed Truman at his low point (The nrnvuA tr hpfir the Baukhage President's message mes-sage is no bigger than the one which jammed the senate sen-ate to see Senator Bilbo barred.) Cowboy Glen Taylor of Idaho, however, how-ever, stole the Republican show. A difficult broadcast. It looks strange, indeed, to see Joe Martin and Senator Sena-tor Vandenberg sitting there presiding presid-ing with Truman below them at the speaker's desk. January 7 Had a birthday but didn't record anything. It couldn't have been Important. January 18 Press conference at the Polish embassy. (What a change since I broadcast from the drawing room in the days when Hitler began be-gan tp show his claws.) Now the Soviets have what Hitler took. Nobody No-body believed a word of what the charge d'adatre said as he insisted on the purity of the government's pre-election activities. Invited to tea for Otto (Hapsburg) of Austria. Couldn't make It. (How are the mighty fallen.) January 30 Broadcast from Roosevelt's bedroom at Hyde Park Just as he left it. Bedroom slippers, dressing gown, the last magazines that he looked at before he left for Warm Springs, Fala's dog biscuit. January SI Broadcast from Poughkeepsie. It's centenary of Smith Brothers cough drops all the employees wearing beards. February 7 Palestine is boiling. February 15 Took Elizabeth (godchild) through White House. February 19 Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Palmer (pastor of my parents' par-ents' church. First Presbyterian of Lock port, N. Y.) called. February 20 Heaviest snowfall of year begins. Attlee announces Tn4ia in ha froori CVC1J i.O JCHIS. DHU I1U BBIIipieX. July 8 The air Is full of flying saucers. So are the airwaves and the newspapers. Typical mass Illusion. Il-lusion. July 23 Oft for a week in New York state and Vermont. Showed my wife scenes of my hiking days. Climbed Mount Mansfield again (on a ski lift). (Maple syrup, $10 a gallon.) gal-lon.) August 2 Back to tropical Washington. Wash-ington. Re-stocked office aquarium with guppies, black mollies, zebras, angel-fish and jumbo snails. August 11 Preview of film "The Roosevelt Story." Good historical documentary, but commentary quite out of tune, for those who lived through most of it. August 19 Tragedy angel-fish succumbs and is eaten almost alive by the predatory, if sanitary, snails. August 20 Bill Benton, director of state department's "Voice of America" program, calls us in for criticism. He has a rather impressive impres-sive factual report on its effectiveness. effective-ness. September 16 Back in the ABC broadcasting booth at the United Nations in Flushing, N. Y., to watch the general assembly re-convene. Too busy to make any diary entries from now on. September 27 Returning to Washington. Progress at the assembly assem-bly seems to be caught In the "njets," but there is a will to peace there which will hold the organization organiza-tion together to the last ditch. October 14 Interview with Stas-sen. February 27 Baby senators' dinner. din-ner. Commentators as "pitchers" grill freshmen senators "up to bat" at Press club. I had Flanders of Vermont, McCarthy of Wisconsin and Robertson of Virginia. March 12 Broadcast from house ' radio gallery again. President's message on aid for Greece and Turkey. Tur-key. Announces "Truman doctrine." Presidential party departs in Sacred Cow. Nat (Nathaniel Peffer. professor profes-sor of foreign affairs, Columbia university) uni-versity) addresses forum: "Get out of China Chiang is a crook." Late in March A southern journey. jour-ney. Daytona Beach, Pensacola, filled with vague memories of my grandmother's stories of her pre-Civil pre-Civil war days here. Lunch aboard the carrier Saipan. Birmingham, , Anniston southern hospitality and sympathetic audiences. April 9 Back in Washington. Saw Maurice Evans in "Hamlet" Very modern. Gravediggers' scene omitted, Ophelia finds her flowers pressed in a book. However, I liked It. April 28 Farmers don't hate daylight savings time any more than I do. Washington on reeular time. In huddle with state department's second-level experts. Marshall plan by no means ready. Paid for my own lunch. October 28 Folks in Upper Darby, Pa., seem less interested in the '48 presidential campaign than in the international situation. November 10 Folks in Oak Park, 111., seem more interested in the '48 presidential campaign than in the international situation. November 16 MC'd "Decade of Destiny" program on Richmond News Leader's WRNL station for their 10th anniversary. Smithfleld ham and more Virginia hospitality November 17 Extra session of congress opens. President's European Euro-pean aid and domestic anti-inflation message received with polite but restrained re-strained enthusiasm by the majority major-ity party. Delivered a learned discourse: "Journalism: Its Cause and Cure." December 7 Television interview inter-view with Senator Flanders of Vermont Ver-mont and Senator Lucas of Illinois on inflation. We didn't do much to bring down prices, but our temperatures tempera-tures rose slightly under the kliegs. December 12 Off to Florida. we get up an hour earlier. As hard for me as it is for a cow to change habits. April 29 Poor Richard club of Philadelphia gives me their "citation "cita-tion of merit." Had a very jolly luncheon. Wally sits next to me (Wallgren. cartoonist of the Stars and Stripes). Later the United Businessmen's Busi-nessmen's association gave me a public service shield. May Day Mexico's President Aleman addresses joint session of congress. Later we meet him for cocktails and an interview at the decorous Blair house, state department's depart-ment's guest residence for VIPs Terrific crowd, heat, the poor President Presi-dent nearly pushed into the garden. . "Viva Mexico, viva Estado UnidosI" May 16 Called on Dr. Loudon, Netherlands ambassador. He tells me he is leaving. It's not often you establish pleasant friendships with officials whom you may know very well professionally and socially. Dr. Loudon was an exception. Hate to see him go. May 20 Boys back from foreign |