Twenty-Five Years Ago (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1959)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. 1959 SPORTS IN REIVIEW - Highlights of the year in the world of sports. The famous ARLBERG-KANDAHAR SKI MEET at Garmisch is a disaster for some of the world’s top downhill racers who come to grief on the treacherous slope. In the N.C.A.A. BASKETBALL finals at Louisville, California edges the West Virginia Mountaineers by one point. A new RECORD HIGH JUMP by 17-year-old John Curtis Thomas, who leaps 7’ 1¼” in New York. Dead-eye putting by Billy Casper brings him honors on the links as he wins the OPEN GOLF crown at the New York Winged Food Club. Aussie tennis ace Neale Fraser twice defeats Alex Olmedo to help send the DAVIS CUP down under and to win the U.S. SINGLES championship. In the WORLD SERIES, the Los Angeles Dodgers out-hit, out-run and out-play the White Sox to leap from last season’s cellar position to the pinnacle of diamond success. A superb series of performances in the most eye-appealing of all sports in the A.A.U PLATFORM DIVING championships in San Francisco. 2. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO - PLEBESCITE IN THE SAAR. Mussolini reviews Italian troops joining the League of Nations police force to keep order in the heated electoral battle for Europe’s rich coal-mining region. Nazi funds bring German-Americans back to vote. One of the turning points in European history between the wars. F.D.R.’s STATE OF THE UNION TALK foresees the return of prosperity to depression-ridden America. MUSSOLINI and PIERRE LAVAL of France sign a pact paving the way for Fascist aggression. GENERAL PERSHING is honored by a U.S. veterans’ group. JIMMY DOOLITTLE streaks from coast-to-coast to set a new flight record – 11 hours, 39 minutes!

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library