Pro Grid Champs – Lions Win Close Game From Browns (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1953)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. PRO GRID CHAMPS – LIONS WIN CLOSE GAME FROM BROWNS: DETROIT - The Detroit Lions retain the world’s championship of pro football, edging out the Cleveland Browns 17-16 with a score-tying TD and a winning conversion by Doak Walker in the final minutes. 2. FRANCE PICKS UNKNOWN RENE COTY AS NEW CHIEF: FRANCE - After a deadlock unprecedented in her history, France chooses Rene Coty, hitherto an almost unknow Deputy, to succeed Vincent Auriol as President. 3. QUEEN ELIZABETH VISITS TONGA’S QUEEN SALOTE: TONGA - Queen Elizabeth’s world tour brings her to the Tonga Islands, where she’s the guest of Queen Salote, the 6’3” ruler whose appearance at the coronation created a sensation. A huge banquet, with 1500 suckling pigs roasted, culminates the colorful and impressive festivities. 4. XMAS FEAST FOR BLIND MUSICIANS: CHICAGO - Union leader James C. Petrillo plays host at the 17th annual Xmas party for blind musicians and their families. Some 200 attend, and Petrillo helps Santa gift the youngsters. 5. CARDINAL SPELLMAN IN KOREA FOR XMAS: KOREA - Francis Cardinal Spellman visits the troops in Korea at Christmas for the third successive year, speaking with 10,000 soldiers in a grueling tour of U.S. positions. 6. FASHION DATE IN ROME: ITALY - Latest fashions from the style leaders of the Ancient City are up-to-date as you please and models share their contemporary grace and beauty, styles with a flair for the dramatic and not-quite revealing. 7. U.N. SECRETARY ISSUES NEW YEAR’S PEACE PLEA: UNITED NATIONS - As U.N. Headquarters, Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold issues his New Year’s greeting to the world—an eloquent plea for peace.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library