Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 2]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 2]

1951

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/99605

Part 1, rescue workers inspect earthquake debris in Jucuapa, El Salvador. Survivors receive Red Cross aid. Part 2, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and Premier Ben-Gurion attend a pageant in Madison Square Garden commemorating Israeli independence. Ben-Gurion speaks. Part 3, Gen. MacArthur converses with Leo Durocher, and throws out the first baseball at N.Y.C.'s Polo Grounds. Paul G. Hoffman receives a Variety Club award in Philadelphia. Gen. Ridgway greets his wife who deplanes at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. Part 4 shows King Faruk, his fiancee, and an honor guard in Cairo. Hapsburg Archduke Otto is married in Nancy, France. Part 5 shows a soccer game in London's Wembley Stadium.

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