Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MARCH 9]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MARCH 9]

1949

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Part 1, the N.Y. Yankees baseball team trains in St. Petersburg, Florida. Part 2, Cardinal Spellman watches as seminarians prepare graves in New York City's Calvary Cemetery during a custodian's strike. Part 3, a B-50 from Carswell A.F. Base, Ft. Worth, Tex., returns to its base after a non-stop trip around the world. Air Force Sec. Symington and Gen. Vandenberg congratulate the crew. Part 4, Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champion. A flashback shows his fight with James Braddock, Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, and Lee Savold state their readiness to compete for the title vacated.

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Spellman, Francis, 1889-1967

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Symington, Stuart, 1901-1988

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