wildlife music
college presidents gather in the nation's capital
cleaning house in athletics. Chairman John Hanna of Michigan State says cleaning house
does not mean a whitewash.
This is the first time that a responsible committee of presidents of colleges and universities
have been charged with this responsibility and have seriously undertaken doing something
about it.
The question has been asked as to what is the concern of colleges and university presidents
in this issue. And in response to that question, I'd like to make it clear that in our thinking,
it's of the utmost importance that we preserve the integrity, the educational integrity of
the colleges and universities of this country, that the American people in our thinking have
a right to look to higher education for integrity and for a high standard of ethical performance.
And if they don't find it in our colleges and universities, I don't know where they
will find it. And I'd like to make the point that we're assuming that there is much good
in intercollegiate athletics and much good in football. And that this committee is going
to try to take out what is bad, remove the evils, and preserve what's good.
With peace talks badly scrambled and ground actions stymied by poor weather, the Korean
war takes to the air with increased fury. B-29s scarred by flak limp home from one raid,
are patched up and immediately sent out on another. The big bombers are off to unload
another batch of thousand pound bombs on a Red Munitions base on the East Coast. The
target is in sight and it bombs away. Another strike at the Red Enemy will bring endless
reserves from the no man's land of China.
General MacArthur returns to his mother's birthplace in Norfolk, Virginia to dedicate
a memorial in her honor. MacArthur tells the crowd how he feels at home in Virginia. Rebel
yells he says, have been in my ear since birth. He tells Mayor Fred Duckworth and other residents,
I'm truly a mixture of the blue and the gray. MacArthur goes to the Hardy Homestead site,
once the home of his mother, Mary Hardy.
A pink marble tablet honors the General's mother. The General of the Army tells 1,200
Norfolk listeners, his mother taught him a devotion to God and love of country which
have ever sustained me in my many lonely and bitter moments in distant and hostile lands.
Army Secretary Frank Page stops off at Marburg in Germany's French sector for a look at Atlantic
attack troops complete with band and mascot. French General Roger Noiret is host. Noiret
is commander of all French forces in Germany. Moroccan troops make up part of the ten divisions
pledged by France to Eisenhower's European Army. The Moroccans have had six months intensive
training in Germany and Page says he's impressed with their spirit and combat readiness.
Secretary Page will spend the rest of this week in Germany. His next stop is the Rhine.
There he'll review allied troops under the command of General Handy, chief of US troops
in Germany.
The Empress of Scotland ties up at the docks at Liverpool with illustrious passengers.
Six weeks ago, the heir presumptive to the British throne left England shores for a tour
of Canada and a side trip to Washington. The royal visit was marked by huge crowds in every
city and village they touched.
In Liverpool too there are huge crowds as England gives Elizabeth the welcome home.
Reporters who question the crew aboard the Empress are told that the couple had a rough
crossing, bought their good sailors and showed no ill effects. The princess whose clothing
was a constant topic of interest in North America comes ashore in a double-breasted
coat of rich raspberry with a double broach of Canadian maple leaves on her lapel.
Four hours later as the train is pulling into London, Queen Elizabeth is among the thousands
of greeters along with Princess Margaret and Prince Charles, Elizabeth's three-year-old
son. During the restless moments of waiting for the train, the young prince acts up like
any impatient little boy.
King George is still at home convalescing from the operation which almost upset the
royal tour. The train comes in and this is the family reunion tempered by British reserve
and the uncomfortable lack of privacy that is the lot of royalty. Outside torrential
rains do not deter a quarter of a million Londoners from lining the homeward route of
the returning travelers. There is lots of things to talk about. Prince Charles wants
especially to know about the Maltese. Elizabeth's first words, it's grand to be home.
Two Czech refugee heroes and their families arrive in New York on the last leg of their
journey to freedom. That journey began two months ago aboard a Czech train. Yaroslav
Konvalinka, engineer of the train, sped across the Czech border into the American zone of
Germany. Partner in the daring escape plot was Karol Truksa, a dispatcher. American officials
gave the refugees permission to stay in Germany. But Lawrence Cowen, president of the Lionel
Corporation, had a better idea. He offered both families jobs and homes in America. We
are proud to have you here. There are jobs waiting for you and we hope that many more
like you will come from behind the iron curtain.