Show world varieties iff smash sm ash hit H nit in 1947 1 atom U N flying disks hamlet 7 fill passing year by news altai fit and commentator FLORIDA 1947 1948 the last pink blush of the setting vu sun has faded from the indian river the palm fronds are quiet biet and only the plaintive peep of the last wakeful ful bird can be e heard over the whisper of the waters A year has begun but only the baby owlets owlett realize that something Is different lite life has begun tor for their generation as it begins each winter almost precisely at this day and hour im looking through my diary new years day little news but down the street the church bells bring ring and for some reason I 1 go to the bookcase and pick up pilgrims progress weave a long quotation anto 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 0 representatives representative admit bearer to radio gallery A new republican dominated congress the first in 14 years the new ins riding high the 0 0 u t a pretty gloomy the gallup pou poll showed truman at his low point the crowd to hear bear the presidents president message baukhage Is no bigger than the one which jammed the senate to see senator bilbo barred cowboy glen taylor of idaho however stole the republican show A difficult broadcast it looks strange indeed to see joe martin and senator sitting there presiding with truman below them at the speakers desk january 7 had a birthday but record anything it 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 began to show his claws now the soviets have what hitler took nobody believed a word of what the charge daf faire said as he insisted on the purity of the governments pre election activities invited to tea for otto hapsburg of austria make it how are the mighty fallen january 30 broadcast from Roosevel ts bedroom at hyde park just as he left it bedroom slippers dressing gown the last magazines ahat he looked at before he be left for warm springs falas dog biscuit january 31 broadcast from poughkeepsie WE its 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 church first presbyterian of lockport N Y called february 20 heaviest snowfall of f year begins attlee announces india to be treed freed february 27 baby senators dinner commentators as pitchers grill freshmen senators up to bat at press club I 1 had flanders of vermont mccarthy of wisconsin and robertson of virginia march maich 12 broadcast from house radio gallery again presidents message on aid tor for greece and turkey announces truman doctrine presidential party departs in sacred cow aft nathaniel peffer protestor protessor of foreign affairs columbia university ver sity addresses forum get out of china chiang is a crook late in march A southern journey daytona beach pensacola filled with vague memories of my grandmothers stories of her pre civil war days here lunch aboard the carrier saifan airm birmingham ingham i anniston southern hospitality and sympathetic tym pathetic audiences april 9 back in washington saw maurice evans in hamlet very modern Grave gravedigger gravediggers diggers scene omitted ophelia finds her flowers pressed in a book however I 1 liked it it april 28 farmers dont hate daylight savings time any more than I 1 do washington on regular time we get up an hour earlier As hard for me as it is tor for a cow to change habits april 29 poor richard club of philadelphia gives me their citation of merit had a very jolly luncheon wally sits next to me cartoonist of the stars and aej stripes later the united bust busi ness mens association gave me a public service shield may day medicos cos president aleman addresses joint session of congress later we meet him tor for cocktails and an interview at the decorous blair house state departments guest residence tor for vipa terrific crowd heat beat the poor president nearly pushed into the garden viva mexico viva estado Unido sl IP may IG 16 called on dr loudon netherlands ambassador he tells me he is leaving its 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 ee him go may 20 boys boy back from foreign ministers conference in moscow baltimore suns paul ward and washington posts ferdinand kuhn addressed the overseas writers off the record what they said confirmed other off the record conferences with high officials not much hope tor for russian american amity get maple sugar may 21 hear violent argument vermont maple sugar Is better than ohio maple sugar affirmative active presidential secretary william hassett of vermont negative dr louis tuckerman bureau of standards nuclear physicist of ohio later broadcast my willingness to judge if given samples june 5 secretary of state marshall at harvard outlines ideas on european recovery june 11 dinner and forum dr chisholm canadian minister of health gave a splendid talk he believes it win will take a lot of education to change human beings from the kind of people who go to war every 25 years still no samples july joly 8 the air Is full of flying saucers eau cers so are the airwaves air waves and the newspapers typical mass illusion 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 gallon galion august 2 back to tropical washington re stocked office aquarium with guppies puppies gup pies black mollies zebras angelfish angel fish and jumbo snails august 11 preview of film the roosevelt story good historical documentary but commentary quite out of tune for those lived through most of it august 19 tragedy angelfish angel fish elsh succumbs and Is eaten almost alive by the predatory it if sanitary snails august 20 bill benton director of state departments voice of america program calls us in tor for criticism he has a rather impressive tactual factual report on its effectiveness september 16 back in the ABC broadcasting booth at the united nations in flushing N Y to watch the general assembly reconvene convene re too busy to make any diary entries from now on september 27 returning to washington progress at the assembly seems to be caught in the neets but there Is a will to peace there which will hold the organization together to the last ditch october 11 14 interview with stassen in huddle with state departments second level experts marshall plan by no means ready paid lor 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 IU ill seem more interested in the 48 presidential campaign than in the international situation november 16 mcd decade ol of destiny program on richmond news leaders station for their anniversary smithfield ham and more virginia hospitality november 17 extra session of congress opens presidents european aid and domestic anti inflation message received with polite but restrained str enthusiasm by the majority party delivered a learned discourse journalism its cause and cure december 1 7 television inter interview with senator flanders of vermont and senator lucas of illinois on inflation we do much to bring down prices but our temperatures rose slightly under the kliegs kliege december 12 off to florida |