Exhibition of drawings and paintings of white house rooms and interior. The pictures are suspended from wires, around the room. Numerous persons walk through the exhibition and make notes about the pictures. People seated as auctioneer stands at podium. Views of some of the pictures, themselves.
President Harry S Truman arrives by car at Washington National Airport. Secret Service agent jumps from car while it is still moving and holds the door for the President. An Air Force Brigadier General greets the President and accompanies him to a waiting U.S. Air Force C-121 Lockheed Constellation aircraft, where they both pose briefly, before ascending steps to the airplane. President Truman waves his hat. An airman with an armband reading "MATS" (Military Air Transport Command) signals for the pilot to start engines. The aircraft taxis out and takes off. Landing gear can be seen retracting, as aircraft completes takeoff.
UN Security Council meeting in Flushing Meadows, New York. U.S. delegate Austin R. Warren seen conversing with UK delegate, Gladwyn Jebb. Broad view of the Council meeting room, with Iranian Premier, Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh, being escorted to a seat at the table. Meeting of the Council commences.
Start of baseball game in Yankee Stadium. New York Giants rookie star Willie Mays catches fly ball, runs to infield. Yankee great Joe DiMaggio catches fly ball near 461 Ft. sign and center field monuments. DiMaggio fields a single. Interior shot of Yankee Stadium with packed stands. Exterior shots of Yankee Stadium with crowd filing in. Brief shots of several players swinging bats, including Giants' Davey Williams, Yankees' Johnny Hopp, DiMaggio, and Yankees rookie star Mickey Mantle. All film presumably shot during the Yankees-Giants 1951 World Series.
U.S. General Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) conversing with British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Deputy SACEUR, as they consult map of Europe on a wall. U.S. General of the Army, Five-star General, Omar Bradley, arriving in France, on a C-121 Lockheed Constellation aircraft of the U.S. Military Air Transport Service. He is met by French Marshal Alphonse Pierre Juin, Commander of the NATO Central Army Group (CENTAG). General Bradley reviews an honor guard at the airport, before driving away in a car.
The UN Security Council in meeting at Flushing Meadows, New York. Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh, Premier of Iran is assisted as he enters the chamber, walking with a cane. British representative Gladwyn Jebb is seen sitting at the table. Dr. Mosaddegh reads a statement to the Council. Ambassador Jebb responds, as Mosaddegh listens using a headset to hear translation.
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