| Show l World Varieties Smash Sma h Hit in 1947 1947 I Atom U. U N. N Flying Disks Hamlet Fill Fell Passing p Year YearBy r By BAUKHAGE BA l Newt News Analyst and Commentator f FLORIDA 1 The 1947 TIe last blush from Pink of t the setting sun faded the Indian river bas as The palm fronds are quiet and t only the plaintive peep of the last wakeful bird can b be heart heard of the e neara over overA the whisper waters A has begun but the year only baby owlets realize reaUze rp- rp n u that is different Life has begun for their generation generation as S f 1 it ll begins V something each winter almost most precisely p cise y at this is day dal and hour h ur Im I'm looking through my diary A I New Years Year's Day Little news but down the street the church bells ring and for some reason I go to toI I the bookcase and pick up Pilgrims progress Weave a long quotation into my broadcast and and very glad I so did-so many people liked it Back through heavy snow to dinner January 6 Here is a red card with rith the seal of the United States on it House of Representatives ta t i v e s admit bearer to toRadio toRadio toRadio Radio Gallery A new Republican can dominated congress con g res s the first in 14 years The new ins his riding high The Theo outs o u t s pretty gloomy The Gallup Gal Gal- Gallup Gallup lup poll showed Truman at his low point The crowd to hear the Presidents President's ent's mes mes- message message Baukhage sage is IS no bigger than the one which jammed the sen sen- senate senate senate ate to see Senator Bilbo barred Cowboy Glen Taylor of Idaho how how- however however however ever stole the Republican show A difficult broadcast It looks strange indeed to see Joe Martin and Sena Sena- Senator Senator tor sitting there presiding ing with Truman below them at the f speakers speaker's desk January 7 Had a birthday but butt t didn't record anything It couldn't cm r have been important January 16 Press conference at atthe ati atthe i the Polish embassy What a change since I broadcast from the drawing f room in the days when Hitler be be- began began began gan to show his claws Now the Soviets have what Hitler took No No- Nobody Noi Nobody i body believed a word of what the charge said as he insisted on the purity of the governments government's pre election activities E Invited to tea for Otto Hapsburg I 1 of Austria Couldn't make it How Howare it are we 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 fit before he left for Warm Springs Falas Fala's dog biscuit January 31 Broadcast from jf Poughkeepsie Its It's centenary of of Smith Brothers' Brothers cough drops all the employees wearing beards February 7 Palestine 7 is boiling February 15 Took Elizabeth godchild through White House February 19 Dr and Mrs Stephen Palmer pastor of my parents parents' par par- parents parents' f church First Presbyterian of oft t Lockport N. N Y called February 20 Heaviest snowfall of year begins Attlee announces India to be freed r din din- dinner February 27 Baby senators' senators ner Commentators as pitchers I trill grill rill freshmen senators up to bat at Press club I had Flanders of Vermont McCarthy of Wisconsin and Robertson of Virginia March 12 Broadcast 12 from house radio gallery again Presidents President's 1 message on aid for Greece and Tur Tur- key Announces Truman doctrine I Presidential party departs in Sacred Cow Nat Nathaniel Peffer professor sor EOr of foreign affairs Columbia uni uni- university university university addresses forum Get out of China China Chiang Chiang is a crook i Late in March A March A southern jour jour- journey ney Daytona Beach Pensacola f filled with vague memories of my myr r grandmothers grandmother's stories of her pre- pre Civil war days here Lunch aboard we the e carrier Birmingham Anniston A southern hospitality and sympathetic audiences April 9 Back in Washington Saw Maurice Evans in Hamlet Very ery modern Gravediggers' Gravediggers scene omitted Ophelia finds her flowers pressed in a book However I liked It April 28 Farmers dont don't hate Daylight savings time any more than I 1 do Washington on regular regular- time lie We e 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 cita citation citation tion bon of merit Had a very jolly luncheon Wally sits next to me meI I cartoonist of the Stars and nd Stripes Later the United Busi Busi- Businessmen'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 ecorous Blair Blah house state depart depart- departments department's departments department's ments ment's guest residence reside ce for VIPs Terrific crowd heat the poor President dent v t nearly pushed into the garden Viva V va Mexico viva Estado May lay 16 is called C on Dr Loudon Netherlands r e he ambassador He tells tIle me he is leaving Its It's not often you youL establish L pleasant friendships with officials whom you may know very Well professionally and socially Dr Loudon l on was an exception Hate to see lee ee him go May Mal 20 Boys 20 Boys b back Ck from foreign l ministers ministers' ministers conference in Moscow I Baltimore Suns Sun's Paul Ward and Washington Posts Post's Ferdinand Kuhn I addressed the overseas writers off- off I the What Wha t they said con con- confirmed confirmed firmed other the record confer confer- conferences conferences with high officials Not much hope for Russian-American Russian amity Couldn't Couldn't- Get Maple Sugar May 21 Hear violent argument Vermont maple sugar is better than th n Ohio maple sugar Affirm Affirm- Affirmative Affirmative Presidential Secretary Wil Wil- William William liam Hassett of Vermont Negative Dr Louis Tuckerman bureau of standards nuclear physicist of Ohio Later L ter broadcast my willing willing- willingness ness to judge if it given samples June 5 Secretary of State Mar Mar- Marshall Marshall Marshall 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 be- believes believes it will take a lot of education education tion to change human beings from the Uthe kind of people who go to war var 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 il- il lusion July 25 Off for a week in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York state and Vermont Showed my wife w e scenes of my hiking days Climbed Mount Mansfield again on ona ona ona a ski lift Maple syrup 10 a gal gal- lon August 2 Back to tropical Wash Wash- ington stocked Re-stocked office aquarium with guppies black mollies zebras fish angel-fish and jumbo snails August 11 Preview ll-Preview Preview of film The uThe Roosevelt Story Good historical documentary but commentary quite out of tune for those who lived through most of it August 19 Tragedy fish angel succumbs andis and is eaten almost alive by the predatory if sanitary snails August 20 Bill Benton director of state departments department's Voice of America program calls us in for criticism He has a rather impressive impressive impressive sive factual report on its effective effective- ness September 16 Back in hi the ABC broadcasting booth at the United Nations in Flushing N. N Yf Y to watch the general assembly re reconvene Too busy to make any diary entries from now on September 27 Returning to Washington Progress at the assem assem- assembly assembly assembly bly seems to be caught in the but there is a will to peace there which will hold the organization tion together to the last ditch October 14 Interview with Stas- Stas sen In huddle with state departments department's second-level second experts Marshall plan by no means ready Paid for my myown myown myown own lunch October 28 Folks in Upper Darby Pa seem less interested inte ested jn in inthe inthe the 48 presidential campaign than thanin in the international situation November 10 Folks in Oak OakPark OakPark OakPark Park Ill seem more interested in inthe inthe inthe the 48 presidential campaign than thanin in the international situation November 16 MCd IG MCd Decade of Destiny program on Richmond News Leaders Leader's station for their anniversary Smithfield ham and more Virginia hospitality hospi November 17 Extra session of congress opens Presidents President's Euro Euro- European European inflation anti aid and domestic message received with polite but re re- restrained restrained re- re restrained strained enthusiasm by the major major- majority majority majority ity party Delivered a learned discourse Journalism Its Cause and d Cure December 7 Television inter inter- interview interview view with Senator Flanders of Ve Ver Ver- Vermont Vermont mont and Senator Lucas of Illinois on inflation We didn't do much to bring down prices but our tempera tempera- temperatures temperatures tures rose slightly under the kliegs December 12 12 Off Off to Florida |
