New York Among War Skies and Rain on Fifth Avenue
A vivid, bustling tour through wartime New York captures parades, weather, lights, and daily life. Citizens pace Fifth Avenue as rain falls, soldiers and veterans mingle with crowds, and iconic sites from Waldorf to Times Building frame a city brimming with wartime energy and memory.
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New York Scenic Railway
Fifth Avenue
Columbus Circle
Broadway
59Th Street
Waldorf
Miss Liberty
Eisenhower and Russians Mark and Mistake in Press Clash
In a frank office depiction Eisenhower laments a Time magazine photo of a Berlin entertainer with Stalin that unsettles his rapport with Zhukov and highlights the gap between a free press in America and Soviet censorship. He defends press liberty while noting Russian sensitivity to criticism. Truman backs Burton nomination to the Supreme Court after a tense interview.
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Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
U. S
Time Magazine
Berlin
Stalin
Time
Marshal Zhukov
Ike
Zhukov
Eienhower
Supreme Court
Presilént Truman
Senator Burton
Burton
Ohio
Cincinnati
Truman
Robert Patterson
Harold
Phillips
Denver
Parker
North Carolina
Patterson
War Department
Stimson
Lausche
Alben Barkley
Senator Barkley
Paducah
Washington
Sage
Barkley
Early Birds Click for Tickets in Dawn Box Office Blitz
Morris Gest, famed producer, engineered a publicity stunt by announcing tickets would go on sale at 5 am. The gambit created a morning rush as patrons lined up to buy every remaining ticket, signaling the show’s apparent smash status.
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Morris Gest
T'il
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34Th
Weu
Army & Navy
the Waldorf
Vth Ave
Bryant Parl
St. Patrick’s
FDR
53Rd
Vth
Wailer
Times
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Madison
Madison Avenue E. S
Bowery Doyet
Air Force
Fiftieth
Tower of Babel
St. Moriis
Hudson
Belasco Theatre
Players Club
Edwin Booth
Convent Avenue
Builtlexander Hamilton
General MacArthur
Emperor Hirohito
Japan
Ernlreror
Douglas MacArthur
Hirohito
Heaven
Uncle Sam
Empire State Building
Labby
Dan Dworsky
Sioux Falls
Michigan
Pinion Brothers
Billy
David
Lloyd
Salisbury
N.C
Duke University Hospital
Pearl Harbor
William Dewitt Mitchell
New York
Hoover
Basil Viavianos
Tinman
Post Office
Gael D. Sullivan
Chicago
Franklin Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Osmena
Manila
Philippines
Dr. Caldwell
R. Caldwell
Oly
Creo Mullion
Nda Ayele
Dole
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