Highlights of U.S. Army versus Notre Dame college football game at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York City, New York. Nearly seventy four thousand spectators gather to witness the game of the century between unbeaten Notre Dame, and the Army team from Westpoint who have won 25 consecutive games. The audiences also include Major General Taylor, Academy Superintendent watching Army (horse) versus Notre Dame (terrier dog) mascots greeting. The voiceover commentator is shown on camera. Secretary of war Patterson and Navy Secretary James Forrestal also lend their support to Army. General Jacob Devers and the Postmaster General Robert Hannegan also turn out to cheer. Teams come out on the field as audiences cheer them loudly. Army player Arnold Tucker is seen. Aerial view of the packed stadium is seen from a nearby rooftop observation point. Game play underway. Army stops Notre Dame on the 4 yard line and then Irish check Blanchard and Davis with superb line play. Until the half time none of the teams scores a point. During the half time break a band performs and an artist performs a mask dance wearing a giant "Lena the Hyena" mask. Play resumes. Jim Brennan from Notre Dame makes a good run and the two teams battle it out as the spectators cheer them on. Brief view of General Eisenhower watching the game. The two teams end the game tied at zero, ending the winning streaks for both teams.
Georgia Tech sinks Navy shows highlights of a football game where the two teams battle it out in Atlanta in United States. Till the second half the teams are tied at six all. But Georgia tech put up a good fight and go on to win the game with score board reading Tech - 28 and Navy - 20.
At the Bank of Cannada in Ottawa staff members put one dollar bills in bales of five hundred bills so as to take them out of circulation. These bales of one dollar bills are put in sacks and are burnt in a furnace. Since one dollar bills have a life span of one or two years they are destroyed.
The Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The British Royal Family moves out of the Buckingham palace. Honor guards in horses during the royal procession to the Westminster Abbey. The golden coach carrying Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip (the Duke of Edinburgh) takes the queen to her coronation in Westminster Abbey. A large procession accompanies the Royal family to the Abbey as people throng by the roadside to cheer the family. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Canadian Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent, also form part of the procession. At the Westminster Abbey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Francis Fisher, administer a solemn oath to Elizabeth II. Dressed in a white garment she sits into a chair under a gold and silk canopy for benediction as she is anointed with holy oil. Elizabeth's four-year-old son, Prince Charles, watches the ceremony as his grandmother Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, explains him the proceedings. Archbishop Fisher places the St. Edwards crown onto Elizabeth's head. Elizabeth II is enthroned as the Queen of Great Britain. Royal Peers vow to the Queen and first among them is her husband and Duke of Edinburgh, Phillip. After the ceremony, the new Queen along with her family moves back to the Buckingham palace. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police escort the royal family back to the Buckingham Palace. A large crowd throng outside the Buckingham Palace as Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Phillip along with their two children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, appear in a Palace gallery.
Trial of eleven American communist leaders, part of the Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders, begins in New York City. Crowds gathered to witness a trial outside the Foley Square federal courthouse in New York City. Eleven American communist leaders appear to stand trial on charges against the United States government under the Smith Act. Defendants enter the courthouse carrying suitcases as photographers take pictures. People on the streets hold posters in hands which read “Frame up trial of 12 on today”. Defendants (Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., Eugene Dennis, John Gates, Gil Green, Gus Hall, Irving Potash, Jack Stachel, Robert G. Thompson, John Williamson, Henry Winston, and Carl Winter), arrested members of the National Board of the CPUSA, pose for a group photo. Another member was indicted but was not tried due to illness.
A newsreel titled 'Death penalty for A-spies Rosenbergs get top penalty in atomic trial'. Convicts Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell, accused of revealing atomic secrets to Russia, emerge from the police paddy wagon van at Foley Square court house in New york in United states. Policemen accompany them as they enter the building. Wife of Julius Rosenberh, Ethel Rosenberg arrives at the court as people throng outside the building. Police brings Ethel's brother and a government witness David Greenglass to the court. After the verdict photographers take pictures of judge Irving Kaufman who sentenced the Rosenberg couple to death in electric chair while Sobell was sentenced to thirty years of imprisonment. A U.S. Marshal paddy wagon carrying the convicts leaves the court as photographers click pictures.
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