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51. Feb. 21, 1948. First floods of '48 [Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Rivers]. [Winthrop] Rockefeller weds a "Cinderella" [Mrs. Barbara Sears]. Dewey opens campaign. Irish elections. French-Spanish frontier reopened. Pope Pius says: use atom solely for peace. Sports: table tennis, Britisher [Richard Bergmann] wins world's championship; farewell to Switzerland [U.S. four-man bobsled team wins one of final events in 1948 Olympics].
© 21Feb48; MP2799.
52. Feb. 25, 1948. Basketball; hottest in the East [NYU vs. Manhattan College at Madison Square Garden]. Gandhi ashes scattered on sacred waters. In brotherhood there is strength [messages for Brotherhood Week from General Eisenhower and high school students]. King and queen of figure skating [Dick Button and Barbara Ann Scott win world championships at Davos, Switzerland].
© 25Feb48; MP2798.
53. Feb. 28, 1948. Joe Louis—gloves across the sea [Mr. and Mrs. Joe Louis sail for England on the "Queen Mary.">[ Ethiopia: Selassie attends Epiphany rites. India: Mountbatten calls on Maharajah [of Bikaner]. Fashions. Political fireworks begin [President Truman speaks at Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner; Henry Wallace speaks in Florida; Governor Jim Folsom of Alabama speaks on the Solid South's political dissatisfaction].
© 28Feb48; MP2820.
54. Mar. 3, 1948. Communists control Czechoslovakia. Truman the tourist [in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands]. Eisenhower in civilian clothes. Palestine and the United Nations: Warren R. Austin outlines the position of the U.S.; illegal immigrants to Palestine intercepted by British Navy; Arab volunteers trained for guerilla warfare against the Jews; the Ben Yehuda street explosion in Jerusalem.
© 3Mar48; MP2809.