Arizona sun., 1948-12-24

| SEeuld have been a most telegenic
7 subject.
JUNE %. A heavy mist hung
over the city of br0therly love
crucial session. had left the
hall at O'clock that morning.
We had witnessed stirring and
pathetic scene when the blind
veteran, Harlan Kelly, nOmi-
mated General Macarthur in q
clear, unhesitating voice which
held in it the ring Of a true
devOtee. Earlier, there had been
the longest demonstration so far,
for Taft. Stassen's had been the
most vigorous.
JUNE "a. was looking over the
public opinion polls and mentioned
that qualities the voters said they
would prefer in presidential can
didate were those of ''the hunani-
tartan, the protector of the weak,
the benevolent guardian of the chill
dren, Of the common man." Per-
haps that was better guide to
what the choice was to be than the
figures the pollsters provided us.
It was late in the evening when
candidate Dewey, accepting the
nomination, raised his hand and
swore that he had made no COM
r11itments to any man.
JUNE 26-The Berlin airlift,
which with the Marshall plan
achieved the two greatest victories
in the cold war, begins.
JULY IL. The other side: le-
thargic Democratic convention
woke to life with 28-minute DEM
onstration for keynoter Barkley
which ''had more real feeling and
spontaneity in it," I broadcast at
the time, ''than anything which
even the super-conident Repub-
licans produced.
JULY 13. This was day of the
battle of the extremes against the
middle. The Negro attacking the
Dixiecrats; Southerners begging for
a candidate acceptable to the South.
So heated were the arguments on
the floor that policemen walked
into the aisles several times. The
Democrats glamour girl had her
chance, and Helen Gahagan Doug
las, for some reason or other more
telegenic than her Republican rival,
emerged equally triumphant, foren-
sically.
JULY IA. The President finally is
nominated and makes his accept
ance in the small hours. offering
a sample of what was to come forth
IN the campaign. Many had already
left the hall. He called for the spe-
cial turnip day session Of congress.
II have run into perhaps four or
five people," 1 commented next
day, "who venture the assertion
that perhaps he might still win"
But everyone else laughs at the
thought. The calling of the congress
proved good strategy.
Thousands of people braved
WashingtOn's heat Of July 19 to
lire the long, slow march Of the
caissOn bearing the General Of
the Armies, John J. Pershing,
to his last rest in Arlington.
On the afternoon of Friday, the
18th of August, as we were leaving
the White House press and radio
conference, Stephanove Kasenkina
jumped from the window OF the
Soviet consulate in New York City.
She lived to become the symbol Of
the escape which so many human
beings. suffocating behind the iron
curtain, have sought before and
since.
AUGUST Is. The diamonds rough
diamond, beloved Babe Ruth, dies.
SEPTEMBER II. Tragic end OF
a man who had lived and died for
peace. Count Bernadotte.
SEPTEMBER 20. A stormy ses-
sion of the United Nations begins,
It's deliberations all but forgotten in
the heat of the presidential cam
paign.
NOVEMBER 2. The election Of a
President who nobody believed when
he went to bed that night-or even
in the early hours of the next day
had won.
NOVEMBER 3. A little before
noon in a New York hotel Cover
nor Dewey announced one Of the
greatest upsets in American po-
litical history when he conceded
his defeat and congratulated ''the
champ"
NOVEMBER IA. A male heir-pre-
sumptive to the British throne is
born.
DECEMBER 13. Baukhage re-
turns from his vacation with a lot
of lies about the fish he caught.
hope my readers will understand
that the last hectic days of the year
have been recorded in the daily
press and are fresh in your mem.
cries. Hence / think they can be