Motion pictures, 1940-1949 - Library of Congress. Copyright Office

26. Nov. 25, 1947. The royal wedding [of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip]. Football: Yale-Harvard; Notre Dame-Tulane; USC-UCLA.

27. Nov. 28, 1947. New French Premier and Cabinet fight crisis of strikes. Action flashes from abroad: grasshoppers plague Australia; Vienna building razed. Aviation: largest land plane in world [XC–99] in test flight. Movie executives purge Hollywood of Communists. Film servicemen are decorated in mass ceremony [Darryl F. Zanuck, Ben Lyon, Lon McCallister, and others]. "City of Kansas City," first intra-Missouri streamliner. Sports: Yankees-Cleveland pro football; girl wrestlers.

28. Dec. 2, 1947. UN votes to divide Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. Washington headliners: President Truman visits the Freedom Train in Washington; Carl Gray is appointed head of Veterans' Administration; Samuel Goldwyn is honored for his war effort; Jesse Donaldson becomes the new U. S. Postmaster General; Robert Hannegan buys St. Louis baseball club. Royal newlyweds [Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip] spend honeymoon in the country. Tyrone Power ends goodwill air tour of 32,000 miles. Army-Navy football classic. Penn defeats Cornell.

29. Dec. 5, 1947. Troops and police fight Red strikers in French crisis. Turmoil marks UN partition of Palestine. Flashes of action: Canadian logging; army flights [in New Zealand and the southern Alps]. Livestock champions compete for prizes at Chicago show. European boxers put on exciting bout in Paris. 1947 football highlights.

30. Dec. 9, 1947. French crisis points East-West conflict on Marshall plan: Big Four parley in deadlock; Dulles confers in Paris; French Communists; Paris Express wrecked; U. S. Friendship Train. Tension mounts in Arab-Jewish situation. News of atomic development: Chicago [celebration at the University of Chicago of fifth atomic birthday]; Washington [announcement by Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lilienthal]. Vacation fashions. Roman Catholic High School wins city grid championship [at Philadelphia]. Notre Dame ends season unbeaten, routing USC.