The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations at work on Mutual Security appropriations. Members seen include Senators Margaret Chase Smith,John L. McClellan and Mike Mansfield..The Committee welcomes Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to answer Committee questions.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Press Secretary, James C. Hagerty, briefs reporters in his White Houes office. He distributes a press announcement. Reporters rush to place their stories by telephone.
A civilian official and Admiral Arthur William Radford, 3rd Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appointed by President Eisenhower. They chat at doorway and mambers of press take photographs.
Exteriors of Corcoran Gallery of Art building in Washington DC. Exhibition of photographs collected from 68 countries is held at the Corcoran Gallery with a theme 'Family of the man'. People looking at pictures exhibited. Creator of the exhibition, Captain Edward Steichen at the opening of the exhibition, autographs a copy of the book containing all the 'Family of the man' exhibition pictures and presenting it to Vice President Richard Nixon. Series of pictures exhibited in the Corcoran Gallery are shown.
Twenty firemen and three policemen injured by fire and explosion in a tire and battery shop. Firemen blown through a wall in the blast. Policemen and firemen gather outside the ruined shop. Injured men helped into an ambulance. Ambulance pulls away.
Skiers arrive, one of them with Australian flag. Skiers jump from the hill. John Risnes of Norway walks away with top honors, with a leap of 195 feet at the North Ski Club's mid-winter jump. Men with surfboards surf in the sea.
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