Participants in the road bicycle racing event 'Tour de France'. The participants ride bicycles on the mountain roads and straight roads. A participant falls from the bicycle. Several other participants help him. Huge crowd including cameramen seen. The crowd cheers the participants.
American golfer Ben Hogan gets a huge Broadway reception in New York City. Huge crowd welcomes him as he comes back home after winning the British Open held in Scotland. He is greeted by confetti as he passes the crowd on the streets in an open car. Cameramen take his photographs.
European kayak champions participate at a Kayak Race in France. The participants on their boats in the swirling water of Vezere River. The boats are upturned in the rapid river.
United States Saving Bonds Division presents Barbara Stanwyck. She makes appeal for all Americans to invest in saving bonds.
President Eisenhower walks up steps of a building at the corner of Baltimore Avenue and East High Street in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Memorial Church of the Prince of Peace (Episcopal) visible across the intersection. Several local inhabitants gather to watch the President. A few Boy Scouts take his picture. He turns toward them briefly as he goes up the steps. View of President Eisenhower's grandchildren, Dwight David and Barbara Anne, in back seat of car, smiling and waving. The car drives away. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Joseph W. Martin, Jr. stands on sidewalk and chats with reporters. Mr. Martin is next seen sitting and conversing with President Eisenhower. The President fools with his eyeglasses and looks at his watch during the conversation. The Speaker and James Hagerty , the President's Press Secretary, leave the building together, and get into a car.
Senate Majority Leader, William Knowland, sits with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in an office in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After their conversations, Senator Knowland is seen leaving the building accompanied by the President's Press Secretary, James Haggerty. Some passersby gather outside the building. Senator Knowland and Mr. Haggerty get into a car. View of the building in which the meeting took place.