Women play in an All American Girls League baseball game in Kenosha. Players in the locker room. They put on their uniforms which include skirts. The baseball game underway. Players pitching, batting, and fielding. Running between the bases. A woman slides into base. A player argues with the umpire at home plate after a strike call, and her manager comes out to argue too. A team in the dugout. Players chat, knit and relax while they wait to bat. A player sets down her knitting and walks out onto the field for her at bat. The winning team celebrates after the game.
Exterior views of United Nations headquarters building in New York City. World map showing NATO member countries shaded dark. Series of shots of American voting in elections, with views of American citizens entering voting booths and placing ballots in voting boxes. Distant view of U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC with an American flag flying in the foreground. Following Presidential election of 1952, Dwight D Eisenhower takes oath of office as President in January 1953, surrounded by other dignitaries at Eisenhower's inauguration. Scenes from end of World War 2 with U.S. Army forces in Paris and happy celebrating French people welcoming the U.S. military and other Allied forces. Close up view of faces of U.S. Army troops marching beside Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Parisians cheer and smile. A French woman kisses an American soldier. Aerial view of Statue of Liberty in New York as a troop ship is arriving in New York Harbor with soldiers returning from World War 2. Soldiers disembark the troop carrier ship. Cunard sign on gang plank. Young American men enrolled in American colleges. A college square area. Inside, a professor instructs college students in class. American students work in a University science laboratory with beakers, vials, burners, and microscope. Young veterans of the war who have returned to be farmers are seen on their farms working. American farmer works in field with a tractor. Views of various church buildings and church spires in American towns and cities. American men,women and children in church and clergy at altar circa 1950.
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.
A good year for Michigan State Spartans college football program. Michigan State defeats Notre Dame Fighting Irish, as the Spartans ran their undefeated string to 24 wins in college football, capping off the 1952 season.
Major events of the year 1952. A large number of people gather to be a part of a public meeting during Eisenhower's Presidential election campaign. Eisenhower in his speech promises to go to Korea after winning the election. Dwight D Eisenhower wins the Presidential election and makes an appearance before the public. Eisenhower reaches Korea on a three day visit. He reviews an honor guard at the airport. Steel industry workers resort to strike and protest. President Eisenhower seizes the industry by an executive edict. But Judge Davis Pine rules against the President.
1952 Miss Universe contestants participate in a parade in Long Beach, California. The contestants ride floats of their respective countries. Miss South Africa Catherine Edwina Higgins waving at the crowd. Women on top of a Universal- International Pictures float. Miss Uruguay Gladys Rubio Fajardo, Miss Sweden Anne Marie Thistler, and Miss Finland Armi Kuusela, on small floats with large shell designs. A large crowd gathers and cheers. The Contestants line up for photo shoot and pose before the camera.
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