News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 2, Issue 6) 1952

for the first time in history a French  president visits the United States on the liner ile-de-france president Benson  Oriole accompanied by mrs. Oriole and foreign minister robert schumann arrives in  New York where he is greeted by Frederick bartholdi statue of liberty given by France  to her sister Republic the United States wario land his party hurry to washington where in union station they're welcomed  by President and mrs. 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 reviewing a parade in  his honor boreal pledges that his country will continue to take her place beside America in the  battle for liberty just as she has in 1776 in New York ending his American visit Oreo decorates  mayor and Pella Terry and concludes with the traditional ceremonial kiss which makes such a big  hit with the photographers that they begged mr. Oreo for an encore and the French president  winds up his visit in a blaze of goodwill in Europe's uneasy spring general dwight d  eisenhower commander of the Atlantic pact army is greeted by British staff officers as  he inspects important elements of his newly formed Defence Force at zenna lager British  occupied zone Eisenhower is in Germany for the first time since taking command Mike  goes to the British training grounds to observe field exercises of the 91st Brigade  despite a late spring spell of foul weather since this area may and the event  of a Russian drive to the Atlantic be the actual battleground Eisenhower is  determined to whip his forces into top shape he next flies to coblentz in the  French occupied zone of Germany for conference with top French generals  show Mel and Guillaume the French 3rd division also part of Ike's new  European army goes into maneuvers French pioneer troops equivalent of our engineers  throw up a bridge in record time as Eisenhower watches United West European forces take important  realistic steps to guard against aggression 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 flocked to the Daiichi  building the supreme allied headquarters to see the 71 year old five-star general as he  enters his headquarters for the last 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 Haneda Airport  busy Lieutenant General James a van fleet arrives from washington on route to korea to succeed  Ridgeway as commander of the 8th army now the recalled Supreme Commander arrives at the airport  for his trip home after a farewell ride past a quarter of a million cheering Japanese Roland  mrs. McArthur say goodbye to American and Japanese friends then in the generals plane the baton head  for the homeland they've not seen in 14 years after a brief stopover in Hawaii the  baton brings the MacArthur's to a hero's homecoming in San Francisco  for the first time since nineteen thirty-five 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 two-hour tour of the city then my father heads for Washington to keep  his scheduled appointment before Congress the next day after a none stop flight  to Washington MacArthur arrives at the Capitol where he's welcomed by prolonged  cheers from the joint meeting of Congress in a dramatic and impassioned speech  mcarthur defenses for east policies and then closes on a personal note I am  closing my 52 years of military service when I joined the army even before the turn  of the century it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and 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 barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old  soldiers never die they just fade away and like the old soldier of back dollar 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 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  hales MacArthur who then goes on to New York in New York on the following morning the  tumult asst welcome continues two out of every three New Yorkers including 4  million visitors the total of seven and a half million people turn out to give  MacArthur the noisiest reception ever received by anyone as he towards the city a blizzard  at confetti ticker tape and torn paper which eventually reaches a total of over 3,000 tons  cascades on macarthur along his 19 mile route the parade turns up town along  Fifth Avenue we're on each clock an estimated five thousand people  or jammed shoulder to shoulder author enjoys his share of the welcome to  Americans of all political opinions differing though they may on issues raised by MacArthur's  recall China and giving an old soldier and a great one general of the army Douglas MacArthur  our hero's welcome to the United States in these unassuming buildings at Shark River  sat in a corner of the Ontario Bush country some of Canada's top scientists are bombarding  the atom in a five-million-dollar atomic pile the most powerful of its kind in the world  inside a huge concrete cylinder billions of neutrons move at speeds up to 10,000 miles per  second producing new materials that even now erratically 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 h-bomb in American plants the Chalk River atomic pile is planned for peace producing age  to agriculture medicine science and industry spring is surely here when the circus comes  to town the Ringling Brothers open with a star-studded benefit for the heart fun  fulfilling everybody's secret ambition Jack Dempsey joins the clowns for a night  now Lou Jacob presents a compressed preview of his 1958 model car small enough  to solve any city parking problem here's a voice from the audience Jimmy  Durante you know how is downstairs and I seen one of them elephants looking at a  little mouse and the elephant was saying to the mouse look at the size of me and look  at the size of you why you're nothing but a wretched insignificant little shrimp the  little mouse looked up but the elements said listen I've been sick let me take that  fixes come on as the thrills come thick and fast wire-walking wonder Hubert Castle  goes into his act on a top steel fridge in a unique feet of balance Leone  startles the crowd on his slaying pole veneto del oro takes to  the air on applying 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 masters tournament at augusta set his sights on one of professional golf's greatest prizes  but benzene's changed never to take the coveted masters as he loses a heartbreaking play-off  against a near-record 280 score by Byron Nelson Hogan's carrera seen but it's Pete with  his 1948 PGA victory over Mike Theresa soon afterward Hogan was almost fatally injured  in an automobile accident the brilliant skill with which he made shots like this overturn  ESA's timing seemed lost the Gulf 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 I'll playing a field of golfing's  greatest now with iron control Hogan seeks the final playoff putt to win from  Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio Hogan's come back as successful and his missus  Hogan proud of the new US Open champion Olga 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 skier eagle and Sammy Sneed Hogan thrills the crowd of 10,000 with powerful shots  and brilliant Puttock 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 synced he does for a winning 281 Stoke  over the record as regal Watchers Hogan is congratulated by Bobby Jones as he adds the  Masters ground to a brilliant golf career the Philadelphia Zoo oldest in the  country tries an experiment in its new birdhouse 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 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 fronted ball ball is perfectly at  home on a familiar azalea bush and any bird is free to supervise from a perch on the  camera man's shoulders as he photographs a flock of victoria crown pigeons from  New Guinea largest pigeons in the world this pair of rare Indian hornbills  who have a seven-foot wingspan below the Brazilian toko two cans with their  8-inch beaks another of the 51 exotic species will mingle with tourists and  sightseers is the moc moc common to Central America one of the favorites  is the American hummingbird who's free willing maneuvering skill as he hovers over  the Avery pond surpasses that of a helicopter shorebirds among them black-necked  stilts and European oystercatchers live in an authentic background of sand and driftwood oh my I'm tired I've been on my feet all day from the air Lebanon Connecticut with its  scattered White House's hardly seems to a page since the days of the revolution its livestock  in rockwall pastures it's orderly Barnes 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  a 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 trumbull library reaffirms Lebanon's  connection with the past a democratic past founded as America's father stated on a belief  in God whether worshipped in a Baptist Church a simple synagogue formerly a schoolhouse whose rad  by his 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 Trumbull who was governor of Connecticut during the revolution  from here Governor Trumbull 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 planned 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 which  replaces 71 room building 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 nations the setting is homemade but the lesson is 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 I