[News Magazine of the Screen, The, April 1951]

la [Applause] [Music] for the first time in history a French president visits the United States on the liner IL to France president Vincent Orel accompanied by Mrs Orel and foreign minister Robert Schuman arrives in New York where he's greeted by frederck bartal Statue of Liberty given by France to her sister Republic the United States orol and his party hurry to Washington where in Union Station they're welcomed by President and Mrs [Music] Truman the ride through Washington itself a symbol of French and American friendship for it was designed by a French architect takes the two presidents past a quarter of a million cheering washingtonians viewing a parade in his honor Oriel pledges that his country will continue to take her place beside America in the battle for Liberty just as she has since 1776 in New York ending his American visit Orel decorates mayor impellor and concludes with a traditional ceremonial kiss which makes such a big hit with the photographers that they beg Mr orol for an encore and the French President winds up his visit in a blaze of Goodwill [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] an order by President Truman recalling general Douglas MacArthur from his command sets off one of the most dramatic and controversial news stories of the generation in Tokyo thousands of Japanese flock to the daichi building the Supreme Allied headquarters to see the 71-year-old five-star general as he enters his headquarters for the last [Music] time the next morning a plane from Korea brings to Tokyo the new supreme commander General Matthew Ridgeway named by Truman to replace MacArthur the changes in command keep Tokyo's hanita airport busy Lieutenant General James aan Fleet arrives from Washington on route to Korea to succeed Ridgeway as commander of the eth army now the recalled Supreme Commander arrives at the airport for his trip home after a farewell ride pass a quarter of a million cheering Japanese General and Mrs MacArthur say goodbye to American and Japanese friends then in the General's plane the Baton head for the Homeland they've not seen in 14 years after a brief stop over in Hawaii the Baton brings the MacArthur to a hero's Homecoming in San Francisco for the first time since 1935 MacArthur sets foot on the soil of the continental United States the next morning half a million San franciscans hail the general as accompanied by mayor Robinson and Governor Warren he goes on a 2-hour tour of the [Music] city then MacArthur heads for Washington to keep his scheduled to point ment before [Music] Congress the next day after a non-stop flight to Washington MacArthur arrives at the capital where he's welcomed by prolonged cheers from The Joint meeting of Congress in a dramatic and impassioned speech MacArthur defends his Far East policies and then closes on a personal note I am closing my 52 years of military [Music] [Applause] service when I joined the army even before the turn of the century it was the Fulfillment of all my boyish hopes dreams the world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plane at West Point and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular bar Ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die they just fade away and like the old soldier of that ballot I now close my military career and just fade away an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that Duty goodbye [Applause] that afternoon all Washington turns out to pay tribute to MacArthur who heads the parade in a car with his wife Jean Marie and Son Arthur schools have been let out and business and government offices closed in his honor the celebration reaches its climax at the Washington Monument where a vast throng hails MacArthur who then goes on to New York in New York on the following morning the Tom welcome continues two out of every three New Yorkers including 4 million visitors a total of 7 1/2 million people turn out to give MacArthur the noisiest reception ever received by anyone as he tours the city a blizzard of confetti ticker tape and torn paper which eventually reaches a total of over 3,000 tons Cascades on MacArthur along his 19m route [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the parade turns Uptown along Fifth Avenue where on each block an estimated 5,000 people are jammed shoulder-to-shoulder [Music] [Applause] Young author enjoys his share of the welcome too Americans of all political opinions differing though they may on issues raised by MacArthur's recall join and giving an old Soldier and a great one general of the army Douglas MacArthur are heroes welcome to the United [Music] States in these unassuming buildings at chalk River set in a corner of the Ontario Bush country some of Canada's top scientists are bombarding the atom in a $5 million Atomic pile the most powerful of its kind in the world inside a huge concrete cylinder billions of neutrons move its speeds up to 10,000 m/s producing new materials that even now are radically changing the 20th century world one such product is the Cobalt 60 isotope on which chalk River administrator Dr da keys and his assistants are working the Cobalt 60 isotope is an important factor in peacetime radiography for X-ray pictures and studies of the sun and the chalk River plant is the only one which can produce such Cobalt much of this work of course is secret and cannot be photographed although the plant can be converted to war needs and has helped speed the hbomb and American plants the chalk River Atomic pile is planned for peace producing aids to agriculture Medicine Science and Industry [Music] [Applause] [Music] spring is surely here When The Circus Comes to Town the Ringling Brothers open with a star studded benefit for the heart fund fulfilling everybody's secret ambition Jack Dempsey joins the clowns for a night and now Lou Jacob presents a compressed preview of his 1958 model car small enough to solve any City parking problem [Music] here's a voice from the audience Jimmy Durant you know I was downstairs and I seen one of them elephants looking at a little mouse and the Elephant was staying to the mouse look at the size of me and look at the size of you while you're nothing but a wretched insignificant little shrimp the little mouse looked up at the element said listen I've been sick let me take the pictures come on as the thrills come thick and fast wire walking Wonder Hubert Castle goes into his act on a Tau steel [Music] thread in a unique feat of balance Leone startles the crowd on his swaying Pole [Applause] [Music] and Pito deloro takes to the air on a flying trapeze the death defying aerialist sail through the air thrilling kids young and old All Over America the prodigious wonderful and astounding circus is back nine years ago little Ben Hogan teeing off in the Master's tournament at Augusta set his sights on one of professional golf's greatest prizes but Ben seems jinxed never to take the covered Masters as he loses a heartbreaking playoff against a near record 280 score by Byron Nelson Hogan's career has seemed at its peak with his 1948 PGA victory over Mike Tesa soon afterward Hogan was almost fatally injured in an automobile accident the brilliant skill with which he made shots like this over Tesa sty seemed lost to golf forever in the US Open at Ardmore Pennsylvania a year following his accident although doctors had predicted he would never walk again Hogan gains a triple tie for first outplaying a field of golfing's greatest now with iron control Hogan seeks the final playoff putt to win from Lloyd mangram and George fazo Hogan's comeback as successful and is Mrs Hogan proud PR of the new US Open [Applause] Champion Hogan now has his eye on the Masters the only major US tournament he has never won starting out in the last round of the 1951 Masters one stroke behind ski Regal and Samy Sneed Hogan Thrills the crowd of 10,000 with powerful shots and Brilliant putting meantime Regal has come in with a 282 the crowd is tense can Hogan beat Regal he has only to sink the next putt to win and sing it he does for a winning 280 one stroke over the record as Regal watches Hogan is congratulated by Bobby Jones as he adds the Master's Crown to a brilliant golf [Music] career the Philadelphia Zoo oldest in the country tries an experiment in its new bird house it's opened its cages so that birds and humans can mingle without the interference of wire glass or netting the birds seem to like [Music] it as for the humans they can stare at a South American lapwing just as if they were alone with it in the jungle and the of the rock doesn't mind visitors at all a golden ball ball is perfectly at home on a familiar aelia Bush and any bird is free to supervise from a perch on the cameraman's shoulders as he photographs a flock of Victoria Crown pigeons from New Guinea largest pigeons in the [Music] world this pair of rare Indian horn bills who have a 7t Wings spread resemble the Brazilian Toco tucans with their 8in beaks another of the 51 exotic species who mingle with tourists and sightseers is the motmot common to Central America one of the favorites is the American hummingbird whose freewheeling maneuvering skill as he hovers over the AY Pond surpasses that of a [Music] helicopter Shorebirds among them black necked stilts and European oyster catchers live in an authentic background of sand and [Music] Driftwood oh my I'm tired I've been on my feet all day [Applause] from the Air Lebanon Connecticut with its scattered white houses hardly seems to have aged since the days of the Revolution its Livestock in rock wall pasture its orderly barns Mark Lebanon like many another American town as a farming community in some ways unchanged since the day Lebanon Patriots left on foot to fight at Bunker Hill Lebanon seems Timeless in other ways the town is always growing with the Restless energy of America much to its own surprise Lebanon recently found itself the center of worldwide curiosity or in the state Department's International Publications division artists and writers were at work on a pamphlet which in photographs and 51 foreign languages is telling people all over the world even behind the Iron Curtain about life in Lebanon an American community in action the Trumble Library reaffirms lebanon's connection with the past a democratic past founded as America's father stated on a belief in God whether Worship in a Baptist Church a simple synagogue formerly a Schoolhouse whose Rabbi is a Lebanon farmer or a Catholic church built a few years ago in an historically Protestant area in Early Times lebanon's religious life centered around the congregational meeting house designed by a son of the famous Jonathan Trumble who was governor of Connecticut during the revolution from here Governor Trumble and His Four Sons participated in Revolutionary activities from Boston to Valley Forge a tunnel ran to the war office where with Washington Jefferson Franklin Lafayette and many others they plan for America's Freedom with these Democratic Traditions forming a background of their lives lebanon's young people are conscious of their part in a world still fighting for Freedom with New England pride in craftsmanship boys and girls alike learn to work with their hands such training is as much a part of education for their role in community life as geography or arithmetic or history in their new Elementary School school which replaces seven one room buildings scattered throughout the countryside the younger children of Lebanon are discovering the international counterpart of the traditional New England town meeting through a United Nations session in miniature they can see the selfishness of one nation threatened the Harmony and Order of the democratic process and the security of other [Music] nations the setting is homemade but the lesson is [Music] real the people of Lebanon come from many groups some are descendants of early settlers others like the Vincent McBride family are newcomers Mr McBride an electrical engineer and his wife have followed the example of early settlers in joining with their neighbors in a full community life to a world beset by anxiety Lebanon with its balance of tradition and progress stands as an example of democratic life