Newsreel clip on 17-year-old Ed Cereghino accepting a $50,000 bonus to sign a contract with the New York Yankees organization in 1951. View of Cereghino signing the contract with Yankee scout Joe Devine (in suit) and Cereghino's parents watching. Cereghino tosses a baseball with his father over a fence with barbed wire. Announcer notes Cereghino will be joining the Yankees' minor-league club in San Francisco, the Seals, managed by former National League batting champion Lefty O'Doul, seen at right. Cereghino pitches his first game for the Seals with his parents in the stands. He loses, but gets a kiss from his mother afterward. (Note: Cereghino would pitch eight years in the minor leagues but never make to the Yankees or any other major league club.)
Dancers at a beach resort in Venice, California show new types of jazz and swing dances. Young dancers dance the Yam, the Shag, and Lindy Hop swing dances on the beach. Onlookers clap.
Chuck Myers wins hill-climb classic in a new record time of 17 minutes in Pikes Peak, Colorado. Competitors in their cars drive up the hair-pin turns of hill-climb dirt track. Glen Shultz smashes his own record. Spectators watch from atop hills. The Penrose Trophy awarded to the winner, Chuck Myers.
Board reads 'Headquarters Air Base Group' at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. Air Force personnel seated inside INT Auditorium for New Year celebration. Sergeant plays harmonica. Colonel, Mr Talbott and General LeMay give a brief speech. The Colonel on stage, presents two ivory tusks to Arthur Godfrey. Arthur Godfrey pours a cup of coffee on stage. Soldiers take pictures.
Man arrives at the offices of Cumberland Homesteads, a New Deal Community being built by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads. He speaks to another man in front of the Information Office. Sign "Cumberland Homesteads Information" visible. He walks down a dirt road and arrives at another office. Sign out front says, "Office. William Macy Stanton, Architecture - Land Planning and Construction. D. F. Folger, Personnel and Purchasing." he enters the office and is seen seated at a table with another man (likely Stanton or Folger), filling out forms to apply for one of the homesteads. He exits the office together with the other man.
Collegiettes wreck and demolish an historic Wellesley college building. Female students move out the furniture, smash windows, rip down doors, and build a bonfire to burn much of it. Two girls jokingly try to make calls using disconnected old telephones. The girls are destroying the building to make way for new college structure.
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