Winners are recognized and receive their awards at the inaugural Greenbrier Professional-Amateur (Pro-Am) golf tournament at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The golf tournament, later known as the Same Snead Festival, finished on April 19, 1948, and served also as a marquee reopening event for The Greenbrier Resort following its use as a U.S. military hospital in World War 2. Brief shot of scoreboard at end of tournament. British golf professional Henry Cotton stands with his amateur partner Merrel Meigs. They are joined by the tying first-place team of Johnny Bulla and his amateur partner John Simms Kelly (Shipwreck Kelly). Also with Kelly is his wife Brenda (nee Brenda Frazier). Meigs holds a silver tray prize commemorating the event. Henry Cotton receives $1800 prize money ($1000 as the top finishing professional with a par 70 score, plus $800 for team competition). Kelly also receives a prize money envelope for his team's first place tying score. View of spectators walking on the Resort grounds. Crowd coming across a foot bridge led by golfer celebrities Bing Crosby, Chris Dunphy (Christopher J. Dunphy), and Ben Hogan. Elevated shot of play underway on the green. Shot of crowd moving to a new hold during the competition. Shot of golf ball landing in a muddy puddle.
Golf scenes on the course of The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Players including celebrities present for the reopening of the resort after its closure during World War 2. Four players stand together in front of the golf country club building then known as "The Casino." They include Railway industrialist Robert R. Young (host of the event), British filmmaker J Arthur Rank (a then business partner of Robert Young in their Eagle-Lion Films endeavor), Britain's Duke of Windsor, and former U.S. Senator Burton K Wheeler of Montana. Several scenes of the four men playing golf, including shots with the Duke of Windsor putting, with pipe in mouth, and J. Arthur Rank putting on the green.
Ben Hogan tees off in celebrity golf tournament that includes Bing Crosby and other notables. Bing Crosby has fun and jokes around, giving advice and pretending to have a lower score than he shot. He puts successfully and is applauded by his companions. We see numerous tee shots by players and aerial views of the course. Large number of spectators are present to watch the players in action.
United States of America and and Britain test Nuclear Weapons. The Titan II missile undergoes its first test at Vandenberg Air Force Base in a shoot from an underground pad. The missile gets destroyed in air with an explosion. The British unveil their Blue Steel, a nuclear air-to-ground bomb designed to fill the gap left by the scrapped skybolt. View of Royal Air Force V bomber taking off.
Exteriors of United States Air Force hospital at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod. Sign reads “U.S.A.F. Hospital” with direction arrow pointing to the right. President John F. Kennedy with his sister, Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smith comes out of hospital and gets into a car. View outside Boston's Children Hospital (300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, U.S.) where President Kennedy's premature child, son Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, is kept under intensive care. President entering the hospital and passing through corridor. View of crowd at hospital.
Flight made by inventor, Professor George De Bothezat. De Bothezat sitting at the controls of the helicopter. Helicopter rising short distant and descending. Many views of helicopter rising and descending. Men watching.
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