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

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

1952

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Part 1, track stars Harrison Dillard, Bob Richards, and Don Gehrmann perform in Madison Square Garden. Part 2, the Dionne quintuplets ride on a float during St. Paul's (Minnesota) winter carnival. Eric Johnston, chairman of the International Development Advisory Board, arrives at the White House. Sen. Kefauver announces his candidacy for the presidency. Part 3, Cecil B. De Mille, Alan Ladd, and Bob Hope receive "Henrietta" awards from the Foreign Press Association. Jean Hersholt, Jane Wyman, and Esther Williams attend the ceremony. Part 4 shows King Faruk and Aly Maher Pasha, recently installed Premier of Egypt. Panoramic views portray new U.S. air bases in Morocco. A new oil field is opened at Basra, Iraq.

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Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963

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