| Show world Vorie varieties jd ties b mash hit in 1947 atom U N flying disks hamlet fill passing year 4 by BAUKHAGE 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 beard over the whisper of the waters A year has begun but only the baby owlets realize that something is different life has begun tor for their generation as it begins each winter almost precisely at this day and hour I 1 in look ng through my diary new year s day little news but down the street the church bells ring and for some reason I 1 go to the bookcase and pick up pilgrim s progress weave a long quotation into my broadcast and very glad I 1 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 representatives admit bearer to radio gallery A new republic can dominated congress the first in 14 years the new ins riding high the 0 u t s pretty gloomy the gal lup poll showed truman at his low point the crowd to hear the presidents president a mes baukhage sage is no bigger than the one which jammed the sen ate to see senator bilbo barred cowboy glen taylor of idaho how ever stole the republican show A difficult broadcast it looks strange indeed to see joe martin and sena tor sitting there ing w th truman below them at the speaker speakers s desk january 7 had a birthday but dian didn ddn t record anything it coul coulden couldn t have been important january 16 press conference at the polish embassy what a change since I 1 broadcast from the drawing room in the days when hitler be gan to show his claws now the soviets have what hitler took no body bel eved a word of what the charge d affaire said as he insisted on the purity of the government governments s pre election activities invited to tea for otto hapsburg of austria couldn coulden t make it how are the mighty fallen january 30 broadcast from roosevelt s bedroom at hyde park just as he left it bedroom sl apers dressing gown the last magazines that he looked at before he left tor for 11 warm springs fala faia s dog biscuit january 31 broadcast from poughkeepsie it s centenary of smith brothers cough drops all the employees wearing beards february 7 palestine is boiling february 15 took el zabeth godchild through white house february 19 dr and mrs stephen palmer pastor of my par ants church first presbyterian of lockport N Y called february 20 heaviest snowfall ol 01 year begins attlee announces india to be treed freed february 27 baby senators dm din ner commentators as pitchers grill freshmen senators up to bat at press club I 1 had flanders of A vermont mccarthy of W and robertson of virg ma nia march 12 broadcast from house radio gallery aga n pres dent s message on a d for greece and tur key announces truman doctrine president al party departs in sacred cow nat nathaniel peffer probes sor of foreign affairs columbia uni hersity ver sity addresses forum get out of ch na chiang is a crook late in march A southern jour ney daytona beach pensacola filled w th vague memories of my grandmother grandmothers s stories of her pre civil war days here lunch aboard the carrier saifan 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 1 liked it apri april 28 farmers don t hate daylight savings time any more than I 1 do washington on regular time we ve get up an hour earlier As hard lor for me as it is tor for a cow to change habits april 29 poor richard club of philadelphia gives me their c cita it a aloi of merit had a very 3 0 olly 1 y luncheon wally sits next to me cartoonist ot of the stars and stripes later the united busl newsmen s association gave me d a public service shield may day mexico s president aleman addresses joint session of congress later we meet him tor for cocktails and an interview at the decorous blair house state depart ment s guest res dence tor for VIPs terrific crowd heat the poor dent nearly pushed into the garden viva tiva mexico viva estado may 16 called on dr loudon netherlands ambassador he tells me he is leaving it s not often you establish pleasant friendships with offic als whom you may know very well professionally and socially dr loudon was an exception hate to see him go may blay 20 boys back from foreign 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 con firmed other off the record confer ances with high officials not much hope for russian american amity get maple sugar may 21 hear violent argument vermont maple sugar Is better than ohio maple sugar affirm active presidential secretary wil I 1 am hassett of vermont negative dr louis tuckerman bureau of standards nuclear physicist of ohio later broadcast my willing ness to judge if given samples june 5 secretary of state 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 be heves it will take a lot of aduca tion to change human beings from the kind of people who go to war every 25 years still no samples july 8 the air is full of flying saucers so are the airwaves and the newspapers typical mass il U lusion july 25 off 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 gal ion august 2 back to tropical wash ington re stocked office aquarium with guppies black molles moll es 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 B 11 benton director of state department departments s voice of america program calls us in tor for crit cism he has a rather imbres sive factual report on its 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 reconvene too busy to make any diary entries from now on september 27 returning to washington progress at the assem bly seems to be caught in the neets but there is a will to peace there which will hold the tion together to the last ditch october 14 interview with stas sen in huddle with state department departments s second level experts marshall plan by no means ready paid tor for my own lunch october 28 folks in upper darby pa seem less interested in the 48 presidential campaign than in the international on november 10 folks in oak park III 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 station for their anniversary smithfield ham and more virginia hospitably hospitality november 17 extra session of congress opens pres dent s euro aid and domestic anti inflation message received with polite but re strained d enthusiasm by the major ity party delivered a learned discourse journalism its cause and cure december 7 television inter view with senator flanders of ver mont mon and senator lucas of illinois on inflation we didn dian t do much to bring down prices but our tempera tures rose slightly under the kliegs be cember 12 off to florida |
