Tuesday
A speech in a Missouri gymnasium starts the next war
Churchill was out of office and touring America. At Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, with Truman sitting behind him, he used the phrase that named the next forty-five years.
Opening the day…
The night of
Afternoon, Fulton, Missouri
Churchill spoke for about fifty minutes to some 2,800 people in the college gymnasium, carried live by the networks and by the BBC. The famous line — from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent — sits about a third of the way in, delivered without emphasis. He was a private citizen; the White House distanced itself within days.
Evening ET
Amos 'n' Andy on AFRS, Lum and Abner electing a new mayor of Pine Ridge, a Random Harvest adaptation, a David Niven guest spot. The Cold War is announced on a Tuesday and the rest of the dial does not alter a line of copy. That contrast is why the day is worth entering.
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