Editorials, Opinion and The News of the Week in Section Two of the Sunday Herald Tribune
The second section of the Sunday edition of the Herald Tribune was devoted to editorials, science, "women's activities," and schools, but it was the feature stories and the "History in the Making" pages that made it interesting. This included articles that were opinionated and lively, more like op ed pieces, and were where the newspaper shined.
William Atwood reported on the vote to deny funding to the new State Department intelligence unit
William L. Shirer lambasted critics of Soviet actions in Iran.
A brief item in the inside pages of Section Two of the Sunday Herald Tribune noted that statisticians were expecting a record crop of babies this year following a sharp increase in the marriage rate in the months after the war. The previous record of 3.1-million babies was set in 1943. In the end, births in 1946 jumped to a little more than 3.4-million from a little less than 2.9-million the year before. The birth rate would climb to 3.8 million in 1947 and after a brief leveling off would begin climbing again in the Fifties, when it reached am annual rate of over 4-million.
An article and photo spread presented the fate of some young Bergen Belsen survivors.
Bert Andrews, the Herald Tribune Washington bureau chief, reported on a boom for Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan for the Republican nomination for president in 1948.
Washington columnist Mark Sullivan wrote about the possibility of a post-war party realignment.
The Herald Tribune, like the Times ran summaries of the big news of the week. The subjects considered worthy of attention this week are here.
Gordon Allison visited Mrs. Harriet Adams of the Stratemeyer Literary Syndicate in East Orange, NJ, in pursuit of the boy inventor Tom Swift last heard from in 1941.
According to an AP story, Nazi scientists had been well ahead of the United States in military research on supersonics, jet aircraft, jet propulsion and rockets at war's end. They were about six months away from putting new jet fighters, bombers and anti-aircraft weapons into operation when the regime collapsed. Many of the German scientists were now working for the US and Britain. Entire labs had been transported to their new homes.
Judith Crist, known then as Judith Klein, wrote a feature on magazine fiction that month.
The paper interviewed writer Ann Petry about her novel on Harlem life.
A feature story discussed the destruction of an historic neighborhood in lower Manhattan for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, one of Robert Moses's most controversial, destructive project. Another story presented Moses' insistence that Fire Island would be destroyed by erosion unless he was allowed to get his hands on it.
The day's editorials led off with a muted tribute to FDR on the anniversary of his death.
Columnist Heptasix urged restraint on anti-union legislation.
The "Opinion of the Week" pages included letters to the editors and editorial cartoons.
Other items in Section Two that day.