According to the United States Weather Bureau it would be slightly warmer on Sunday with highs in the upper 50s as worshipers gathered at churches throughout the city to celebrate Palm Sunday.
The American Cancer Society's annual Easter fund drive was in its final two weeks.
The Bronx zoo had reopened its children zoo for its sixth season.
The circus was in town and three year old Taffy Jo-Ann Hughes recounted her day at the circus, as told to her dad, News reporter John Hughes
Three transports carrying 1990 troops and one with 465 war brides and children were due to arrive in New York harbor that day.
The Sunday News interviewed one unhappy British war bride stopping in New York with her 11-month old son at the Hotel Commodore on her way to Las Vegas to fight a divorce petition from her ex-serviceman husband who had fallen in love with a mademoiselle while stationed in France. Many servicemen who married overseas changed their mind once they got home. Here are the details as reported in the Sunday Mirror.
Master Sgt. Robert Sommerhoff of East 82nd Street, due home momentarily, would be reunited with the fox terrier he had shipped from Leyte in the Philippines. The dog had escaped but thanks to an earlier story in the News it had been found and rescued.
New York Life Insurance announced that veterans would receive preference at the new low cost, garden-style apartment complex it was building in Princeton, NJ.
The AP reported that Mother Cabrini was to be canonized by the Catholic church on July 7, becoming the first saint who had been an American citizen. Another story said that seven letters found in Egypt corroborated the book of Jeremiah in the Bible; they mentioned offerings to the "Queen of Heaven," whom Jeremiah complained the Jews of Egypt and Israel were worshiping.
On a sadder note, Henry Zurek, a 27-year old steamfitter from Bay Ridge, fell to his death from an indoor scaffolding while working on a building on 18th Street in Brooklyn.