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56. Mar. 9, 1949. Spring and baseball, they'll soon be here [New York Yankees at St. Petersburg, Fla.] Cardinal Spellman leads students digging graves. B–50 hops around globe non-stop. The champ hangs up his gloves [Joe Louis officially retires and turns promoter].
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57. Mar. 12, 1949. Baseball's world champions [Cleveland Indians] look to '49—with [Bob] Hope. Soviet mission forced to quit U.S. zone [Frankfurt]. News diary of the First Family [President Truman receives outgoing and incoming Secretaries of Defense; leaves for Key West, Fla. Margaret Truman christens the "Clipper America.">[ Security Council votes Israel's admission to UN. Sports spectacle; basketball's greatest "freeze" [Minnesota Lakers vs. Harlem Globe Trotters].
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58. Mar. 16, 1949. Odom flies Hawaii-N.J.; gas costs $75. Russia returns lend-leased U.S. cruiser [the Milwaukee]. Danish minister [Gustav Rasmussen] in U.S. for pact talks. Axis Sally guilty of treason. Modern version: Great train robbery! [Two desperadoes rob a B&O express near Martinsburg, W. Va.] Smallest engine, smallest car [makes its debut in Munich, Germany].
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59. Mar. 19. 1949. Baseball's "elder statesman" [Connie Mack in Florida with the Philadelphia Athletics]. Restore temple [at Karnak on the Nile] destroyed by 'quake in 27 B.C. "Canada Day" at West Point. Science news: world's lightest solid [plastic foam]. Czechoslovakia, one year after the Red seizure. Speed in sports: 200–mile cycle derby [Daytona Beach, Fla.]; amateur Grand National [Hunt Steeplechase at Cheltenham, Eng.].
© 19Mar49; MP3983.
60. Mar. 23, 1949. Springtime on skis in Alberta [new ski lift opens at Banff]. Israel's first trans-Atlantic cargo ship [the S. S. Haifa is dedicated in New York. Moshe Sharett, Israeli Foreign Minister, comes to U.S. for conference on the United Jewish Appeal]. For atom workers: remote control hands [shown at the Argonne National laboratory in Chicago]. Russians transfer "Milwaukee." [Lend-leased vessel reverts to the American Navy]. Spectacular waterfront fire in California [Army dock and warehouse at Oakland become smoking ruins].