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Battle of Berlin9 in 2nd Place
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Br FI K. MIckelson
(List also on page 1)
General News Editor of The Associated Pr
Seven out of the 10 biggest headlines of 1948 concerned
news but he one that topped them all was over the classic American
story of the trim, little man from Missouri who upset every prediction
to hold .on to the biggest job in the world. . j . j .
Haary S. Truman's mother said he always ploughed a , straight
furrow country lad, and the one he ploughed straight Into the
hearts of millions by his winning
s
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fight for re-election to the presi
dency of the United States never
will be forgotten1
in American pol- r
Itics. For human.'
interest -in this
nation's publica-?
tions, you can't :
beat th -story of t
the under - dogn T.
who wen out;. H
agamsx ternxic,.
odds. President'
Truman's victory'
was Just thatl
kind of a tri-i
umnh. as close as Psnl Micketsoa
it was, sod editors of Associated
Press newspapers voted over
whelmingly for it as story No. 1
In the annual poll.
-Political Miracle"
As he fought and won re-election,
carrying with him workable
majorities for the democratic
party in both branches of con
gress. President Truman wrought
the political miracle of the cen
tury' In the dust of defeat, he
left Xince overly-optimistic repub
licans wrangling among them
selves and expert political poll
takers, who predicted easy victory
for Thomas E. Dewey, stewing
with explanations and decidedl
loss of -prestige.
The editors voted the "Battle
for Berlin" the second biggest
story of the year. There was
millions of underdogs in Berlin,
too, but there was no victory.
The devastated city, of 3,000,000
was a symbolic prize in the cold
war between Russia and the wes
tern allies.
Airlift Only Answer
Caught in the devastation of
war, caught in the middle of the
east-west fight over the standard
of money. to be used, the rubble
heap city was staggered in June
when the Russians imposed the
excruciating blockade of Berlin.
Blaming it on "technical difficul
ties," though it clearly was a
counter thrust against the western
currency reform to end inflation
which - was wrecking recovery
lans, the Russians shut the rail
ines entering Berlin from the
west. The situation left but one
answer. Unwilling to push armed
convoys of supplies across the
Soviet- lines, the western allies
took to the air. The famous cor
ridor airlift "was born and the
story about it and the battle for
the city was as exciting as pros
pects for peace were sad.
Israel Ranks Third
Winning third place in the poll
of the big newspaper stories of
1948 was the birth of a nation.
Clearly victorious in bitter
fighting and sniping that saw
Count Folke Bemadotte, United
Nations peace envoy to Palestine,
fall to assassin bullets, the state
of Israel was born in a proclama
tion of independence. It was the
first Hebrew nation in 2,000 years,
but strife seems to be a never
ending lot for the new nation.
A little, brown man entered his
rayer meeting grounds in India,
ooked - at his watch and said
when a man saluted him:
"Today I am unusually late."
He raised one hand to give the
man a blessing when the assassin
began' to shoot. Three shots rang
out. Death came quickly to the
emaciated body of Mohandas
Gandhi, apostle of non-violence
and peace to India's millions, less
.than a year after he had achieved
his life's main goal. It happened
Jan. 30 and the story of the tra
gedy, voted the fourth biggest
story of the year, was reflected
in headlines throughout 1948.
Marshall Pun Fifth
The American dollar also fought
along the cold war front in 1948
and fought what appeared to, be
in the closing months of the
year an all-winning battle. The
Marshall Plan, with billions for
European recovery, was a contin
uing story that won many head
lines and many Russian curses. It
was a clear winner of the fifth
spot in the year's best news
stories.
The continuing story listed in
sixth place in r948 was. the top
subject of headline writers in
1947. It was the cost of living
and inflation. There was no letup
in inflation this year. Some food
prices dropped ever 5vjlightly
while costs of almost rything
else kept skyrocketing. vever,
news gets old quickly in America.
High costs were "old stufrScom
paratively, so the champ headline
winner of a year ago fell far be
hind in the shuffle for news.
All year Associated Press re
porters,' most of them working
under the worst possible condi
tions, won little space in Ameri
can newspapers as they told the
story of the swift pace of com
munist hordes in China. But when
dirty, forsaken but important
Mukden fell in October, followed
by the collapse at SuchoW which
made the nationalist capital! of
Nanking vulnerable to the Reds,
the story of the fight and its vast
importance was told In screaming
headlines. i j
As Mme. Chiang Kai-shek flew
to Washington to appeal for Unit
ed States aid for almost any
thing to help atem the communist
tide editors voted the story the
seventh biggest of the year. His
tory may make it the biggest;
For real drama nothing touch
ed the one that was bulletined
out of New York on Aug.! 12, tail
ing of Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna
Kasenkina's jump to freedom from
the Russian consulate. Held pris
oner there pending ? transfer and
imprisonment or death j.to
her native Russia, the woman who
rebelled against communism leap
ed from the third floor! window
of the consulate. She landed; in
the cement courtyard and was
enmeshed in the wires of a fence.
No reporters lingering dutsidejfor
news of the captive woman, saw
her jump but they, together with
police, saw her seconds later I ly
ing in a heap. . j i
Mrs. Kasenkina almost lost iher
life but a long hospital stay saved
it and she won her freedom. It
was the eighth biggest story.
Babe Ruth, who rose from the
obscurity of an orphanage to 'be
come perhaps the greatest of
baseball immortals, lost his Hong
fight against cancer in- August.
His death and the story of
fabulous career was listed as
biggest sports story and the ninth
important news event
his
the
In
most
1948
The famous "spy hunt" was in
and out of the year's headlines
but when Whittaker Chambers,
senior Time Magazine editor, lied
investigators to a field, picked,' out
a pumpkin and showed j the eon
tents rolls of micro-film which
held state department secrets of
a decade ago the Story! was em
blazoned over the earthi The j de
velopment gave the House I un
American committee at shot-in-the-arm
in its hot and cold I in
vestigation. It was voted the fOth
biggest story of the year.
Tropical Track
Losing Money
MIAMI, Fla., Dec, 2t4(jF)-Trop-ical
park race course $nnouiiced
today that it is more than $92j.0OO
in the red after the first half of
its 40-day meeting. t
Wagering is down about 30jper
cent from last year an the track
anticipates a loss or just an "even
break" for the season. Bjuce
Langdon, a Tropical i executive,
said that the track would Have
to handle about . a half million
dollars a day for the balance of
the season to break even.
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