Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

During the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin in 1948, the commanders of the Berlin airlift had cabled Capp, requesting inflatable shmoos as part of " Operation: Little Vittles.

The Bronx once had its own daily newspaper, The Bronx Home News, which started publishing on January 20, 1907 and merged into the New York Post in 1948.

( The American League had to resolve a tie in 1948, but used a single-game playoff for that.

In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).

Graham had briefly attended Bob Jones College, and the university conferred an honorary degree on him in 1948.

By February 1948, because of massive post-war military cuts, the entire United States army had been reduced to 552, 000 men.

Korea had been divided at the end of World War II along the 38th parallel into Soviet and U. S. occupation zones, in which a communist government was installed in the North by the Soviets, and an elected government in the South came to power after UN-supervised elections in 1948.

The Electricity Act 1947 introduced better retirement benefits for workers in that industry, and a Workers ’ Compensation ( Supplementation ) Act was passed in 1948 that introduced benefits for workers with certain asbestos-related diseases which had occurred before 1948.

Although the ČSLA, as formed in 1945, included both Soviet-and British-equipped / trained expatriate troops, the " Western " soldiers had been purged from the ČSLA after 1948 when the communists took power.

In his diary on June 1948, Chiang wrote that the KMT had failed, not because of external enemies but because of rot from within.

The inability of Li to coordinate KMT military forces led him to put into effect a plan of defense that he had contemplated in 1948.

Dutch physicists Hendrik B. G. Casimir and Dirk Polder at Philips Research Labs proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms and between such an atom and a conducting plate in 1947, and, after a conversation with Niels Bohr who suggested it had something to do with zero-point energy, Casimir alone formulated the theory predicting a force between neutral conducting plates in 1948 ; the former is called the Casimir-Polder force while the latter is the Casimir effect in the narrow sense.

While President Truman had begun the process of desegregating the Armed Forces in 1948, actual implementation had been slow.

He had his first solo show in 1948, and has shown regularly since then.

The Convention was drafted by the Council of Europe after World War II in response to a call issued by Europeans from all walks of life who had gathered at the Hague Congress ( 1948 ).

Previous to the 1960 change, the ' Improved Lunar Ephemeris ' had already been made available in terms of ephemeris time for the years 1952-1959 ( computed by W J Eckert from Brown's theory with modifications recommended by Clemence ( 1948 )).

The Communist Party of Pakistan that was established in 1948 had pushed its membership in all over the country and had considerable support on economical issues in the East.

Since its unification with Pakistan, the East Pakistan Army had consisted of only one infantry brigade, which was made up of two battalions, the 1st East Bengal Regiment and the 1 / 14 or 3 / 8 Punjab Regiment in 1948.

Until 1948 the Faroes had the official status of a Danish amt ( county ).

The BAFTAs had included a Best British Film category since 1948, although the idea was dropped in the 1960s.

" In 1948, de Kooning had his first one-man show, which consisted of his black-and-white enamel compositions, at the Charles Egan Gallery in New York.

The Veterans ' and Active Force was a one-man political party that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada, from 1944 to 1948.

* 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate ( 1, 077 performances ), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.

* 1948 – Noel Edmonds, English game show host

The show was broadcast from 1948 to 1971 ( a total of 23 years ), which made it one of the longest-running variety shows in U. S. broadcast history.

In 1948, the CBS network hired Sullivan to do a weekly Sunday night TV variety show, Toast of the Town, which later became The Ed Sullivan Show.

Debuting in June 1948, the show was broadcast from CBS Studio 50, at 1697 Broadway ( at 53rd Street ) in New York City, which in 1967 was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater ( and is now the home of the Late Show with David Letterman ).

These films show strong affinities with the work of Italian neorealists, not least Roberto Rossellini's neorealist trilogy which included Germany Year Zero ( 1948 ), and are concerned primarily with day-to-day life in the devastated Germany and an initial reaction to the events of the Nazi period ( the full horror of which was first experienced by many in documentary footage from liberated concentration camps ).

* 1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut ( the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948 ).

* 1948 – David Ruprecht, American game show host

A notable exception to this was relative newcomer Arthur Godfrey who, as late as 1942, was still doing a local morning show in Washington, D. C. Godfrey, who had been a cemetery-lot salesman and a cab driver, pioneered the style of talking directly to the listener as an individual, with a singular " you " rather than phrases like " Now, folks ..." or " Yes, friends ...." His combined shows contributed as much as 12 % of all CBS revenues ; by 1948, he was pulling down a half-million dollars a year.

" Capturing NBC's cornerstone show was coup enough, but Paley repeated in 1948 with longtime NBCers Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Red Skelton, as well as former CBS defectors Jack Benny, radio's top-rated comedian, and Burns and Allen.

Debuting in 1948, Allen Funt's hidden camera Candid Camera show ( based on his previous 1947 radio show, Candid Microphone ) broadcast unsuspecting ordinary people reacting to pranks.

In 1948 she became pregnant, but suffered a miscarriage after a show.

* She has been portrayed by Carmen D ' Antonio in Golden Girl ( 1951 ), Sheila Darcy in Wells Fargo ( 1937 ), Yvonne De Carlo in Black Bart ( 1948 ), and Rita Moreno in an episode of the 1950s TV show Tales of Wells Fargo.

He was invited by Freeman Gosden to join the cast of the Amos ' n ' Andy radio show as lawyer Gabby Gibson, whom he portrayed from 1944 to 1948.

While at 3GL, Happy also made his first TV appearance in 1948, long before the Tarax show, as part of an exhibition using closed-circuit TV equipment for trial purposes.

Karloff, along with H. V. Kaltenborn, was a regular panelist on the NBC game show, Who Said That ?, which aired between 1948 and 1955.

A radio adaption was broadcast on the show Escape on July 7, 1947 and again August 1, 1948.

Her last public exposure, albeit fleeting, was a guest appearance on the radio show Truth or Consequences in March 1948 ; Bow provided the voice of " Mrs. Hush ".

Mount Airy's WPAQ 740 AM radio is one of the few Bluegrass and Old-Time music stations still operating and has been airing the live radio show Merry-Go-Round from the Downtown Cinema Theatre since 1948.

* Karen Kresge ( born 1948 ), former star solo ice skating performer for Ice Follies and Holiday on Ice, currently ice skating choreographer, ice show director and producer

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

In the show's June 20, 1948 debut, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed along with singer Monica Lewis and Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II previewing the score to their then-new show South Pacific, which opened on Broadway in 1949.

His first solo show was in 1948.