President Truman's limousine arrives at the Union Station in Washington, DC, United States. U.S. President Harry Truman participates in an award ceremony of USO (United Service Organizations). A banner reads 'USO' . President Harry Truman presents awards an Army Sergeant and a Wave. The award recipients lead others in taking refreshments from a long table set up in the portico of the Union Station. A woman wearing armband reading 'USO' helps serve the guests. A sailor, a woman Marine, and a soldier, sit on a sofa and read magazines in the USO room of the Union Station. Three soldiers sit on a sofa and enjoy their refreshments.
Crowd stands in front of courthouse in New York City. Taxis and other cars are parked on the roads in front of the skyscraper. Lawyer George Levy, of Nassau Trotting Association, being interviewed and photographed, on courthouse steps. Frank Erickson, bookmaker for Frank Costello, leaves courthouse, with several others, after testifying before the Kefauver Committee. They are photographed by cameramen. Frank Erickson, followed by a companion, enters a 1947 Chrysler Crown Imperial Limousine, which drives away with them in the back seat. A momentary glimpse of Frank Costello, with several others in the hall of the courthouse.
Newsreel 'Soap Boxers, Junior speed demons tangle in 1952 Derby'. Several children wearing helmets ready for the youth soapbox car racing. Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart talks with a participant who is readying for the race. Coaster cars on the track. Eleven year old Joe Lunn of Columbus, Georgia wins the final of the junior speed classic in Soap Box Derby in Akron in Ohio. Huge crowd cheers him.
In a dieting voluntary program an overweight sergeant and other men on low calorie dets eat celery and otehr vegetables in the Army mess at Fort McNair. A card on the table reads 'Diet Table'. The slender Army men feed on high calorie food, with plates full of food, as they sit directly across from those dieting.
Newsreel 'Gold Cup, Slo-mo-shun IV keeps speed crown'. Several hydroplanes in water. They leave behind a spray of water. SUCH CRUST IV catches fire. View of burned hull of Such Crust IV. Ambulance takes pilot "Wild Bill" Cantrell to the hospital with burns Shots of crowd gathered to watch the event. Slo-mo-shun IV hydroplane wins the Gold Cup close course race. Slo-mo-shun IV hydroplane wins the race unchallenged.
President John F. Kennedy in a meeting with former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon . Governor Nelson Rockefeller called them to back the President in the Cuban crisis. The cameramen take photographs.
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