252. Mar. 5, 1948. Japan battles black market [Tokyo]. Schools closed by teachers' strike [Minneapolis]. Easter prevue down in Dixie [Gracie Allen at New Orleans' Fete des Chapeaux]. Truman ends tour [Guantanamo, Cuba]. New jet plane [Navy's FJ–1]. Bill Stern's sports topics: Paris acclaims Barbara Scott; turf classic [Talon defeats On Trust in Santa Anita's $100,000 handicap race]; muscle men on parade [male beauty contest in Florida].
© 5Mar48; MP2927.
253. Mar. 10, 1948. Quick aid to Europe urged to avert war. Czech fate stirs world [Senator Arthur Vandenberg speaks for European Recovery Program; scenes in Czechoslovakia show Premier Klement Gottwald; Czech Ambassador Juraj Slavik resigns in Washington]. Everglades [Florida] wonderland explored by cameramen. King Michael reclaims throne [in Paris with Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma]. Bill Stern's sports headlines: basketball sensation [Notre Dame defeats NYU]; Boston Red Sox get ready [at Sarasota]; Cincinnati Reds warm up for spring [Tampa]; most perilous ski jump [Iron Mountain, Michigan].
© 10Mar48; MP2928.
254. Mar. 12, 1948. De Gaulle asks U. S. arms aid to stem Red march. Canadian Army trains troops in Arctic warfare. De Valera in U. S. Truman returns to Capital. Canada hails Olympics heroine [Barbara Ann Scott in Montreal]. Gliders in record soaring contest [San Diego]. Bill Stern's sports topics: baseball's in the air [Chicago White Sox at Pasadena; New York Yankees at St. Petersburg; Detroit Tigers at Lakeland; Boston Braves at Bradenton]; track thriller [Salmagundi defeats Call Bell in Santa Anita Derby].
© 12Mar48; MP2929.
255. Mar. 17, 1948. 1949 political pot starts boiling [spotlight on Dewey, Stassen, Taft, Vandenberg, Warren, and MacArthur]. King Michael here to learn about America. Chile claims Antarctic islands [President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla at Greenwich Island]. Spectacular fires sweep Jap capital [Tokyo]. "Big Jim" makes a hit [Alabama's Governor James Folsom in New York]. Movie star honored [Esther Williams made Honorary mayor of Twentynine Palms]. Bill Stern's sports topics [University of California crews at Oakland; Arne Ulland wins U. S. National ski title at Snoqualmie, Wash.; Philadelphia Athletics at West Palm Beach. St. Louis Cardinals at St. Petersburg].
© 17Mar48; MP2933.
256. Mar. 19, 1948. World crisis mounts; Marshall asks U. S. to keep calm. [Major General Bennett E.] Meyers goes to jail. De Valera hailed [in San Francisco]. Romance of the air [Jane Froman marries pilot who saved her life]. Britain-U.S. sign film agreement. Bill Stern's sport topics: Dodgers get ready; bowling championship meet [Detroit]; wheelchair basketball [war veterans from Halloran and Cushing Hospitals].
© 19Mar48; MP2944.