Buyer's Market

Seven tired diplomats, headed by Yugoslavia's Dr. Stojan Gavrilovic, stepped out of a plane at LaGuardia Field to begin 1946's most publicized house hunt. Soon they ran into a devastating propaganda barrage by cities which want to become the home of UNO--and refuse to be intimidated by the strong sentimental lobby for Hyde Park.

Among top contenders was Boston, which had flown handsome Governor Maurice J. Tobin, and other leaders, to London. At the State House, a bas-relief map of Greater Boston was ready for delegates; there was talk of using a blimp for reconnaissance.

New York City's tabloid Daily News continued to argue that Manhattan, definitely out of the running, was ideal because it could make any delegate feel at home--the Chinese would be happy living in Chinatown, the French in Greenwich Village, the British at the Waldorf. "If [the delegates] . . . were cooped up in some sort of compound at Hyde Park, it would be like a lot of laundresses taking in one another's washing."

San Francisco, also out of the running, resorted to drafting its school children to flood the mails with come-on postcards.

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