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

247. Feb. 18, 1948. Today in Palestine. Arab terror defies United Nations. President [Truman] opens 1948 Red Cross Drive. Mardi Gras [Mrs. Truman and Miss Margaret Truman in New Orleans]. Viareggio [Italy] fiesta. Miss Truman launches craft named for Dad. Bill Stern's sport topics: Nations top dogs in New York show; Lipton Cup race [Miami Beach, Fla.]; championship ski jump [St. Paul's winter carnival].

248. Feb. 20, 1948. Cinderella romance [Winthrop Rockefeller marries Barbara Sears in Palm Beach, Fla.] Pope warns of atom bomb. Latest films of the war in Greece. Appeasement of Stalin scored by Dewey. Winter Olympics finale [U. S. wins four-man bobsled title; Canada defeats Switzerland to capture hockey crown]. Hell drivers in bang-up show [rodeo in California].

249. Feb. 24, 1948. Chiang's army moves against the Reds [General Fu Tso-Yi in command in North China]. Post-war twin record [three sets in two years for Mr. and Mrs. John J. Walsh of Quincy, Mass.] Strange baby case [questionable citizenship of 16–months-old Neils Rebholz]. American hails spirit of brotherhood [messages from Henry Noble McCracken and General Eisenhower]. Bill Stern's sport topics: daredevils on ice [motorcycle race in Czechoslovakia]; Golden Glovers [Coley Wallace, highlight of the matches].

250. Feb. 27, 1948. Democrats open Presidential battle of 1948 [President Truman and James A. Farley at Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner]. In starving China today [Peiping]. Quintuplets for the Leos [San Francisco Zoo]. Bill Stern's sports topics: baseball's in the air [New York Giants train in Florida]. One-man helicopter. Carnival time in Rio.

251. Mar. 3, 1948. The Palestine tragedy: explosion rocks Jerusalem; United Nations crisis [speech by Warren R. Austin]; Haganah ship drama [Jewish refugee ship "Unafraid" picked up by British]. "New look" for General Eisenhower [in civilian clothes]. Czechoslovakia in chains [camera highlights of the country from pre-Hitler days to present].