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...Yorishige Matsudaira rode 350 miles southwest from Tokyo (then Edo) to take over the provincial capital city of Takamatsu on the sunny island of Shikoku. To commemorate his arrival, he called in the finest landscape architects in the land and had them build a magnificent garden, known as Ritsurin Koen, or Forest of Chestnut Trees, that even today draws visitors from all over Japan. When they come, they see in flourishing Takamatsu, now a city of 240,000, many another sight to please the eye. For Masanori Kaneko, 60, the local governor, has taken a leaf from Matsudaira...
...Sydney, Australia's Olympic Champion Marjorie Jackson set a women's 220-yard-dash record in a flashy 24 seconds flat, breaking the record of 24.2 set by The Netherlands' Fanny Blankers-Koen...
Olympic Truce. How good were the Russians? Nobody knew. But the broad-backed Russian women, who claim seven world records, were expected to dominate the women's track & field events. Standing virtually alone against them was the amazing Netherlands housewife, Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four gold medals at the 1948 London games. One first-rate Russian showing is almost certain, and in a game that even the Russians admit the U.S. invented. Olympic fans hope that the Russian basketball team, European champions in 1951, will meet the U.S. in the final...
Fanny Blankers-Koen, blonde Dutch housewife who has four Olympic gold medals and two kids of her own, stepped off the plane in New York, sought out a track where she could work the kinks out of her legs (she ran an all-star field into the ground at Los Angeles later in the week), got an unexpected welcome on her first trip to the U.S. from a swarm of eager little helpers at the track...
High points of the Games are the high points of the film: The amazing four-victory running of Fanny Blanyers-Koen of Holland, the high-speed excitement of ski jumpers and bobsledders, the gruelling ordeal of the marathon, the complete mastery of corn-fed American track and field stars. Periodic shots of the crowds at Wembly Stadium have been chosen with taste and occasional wit, and the overall effect is pleasantly spectacular. The parts of the narration handled by Ted Husing and Bill Stern are not up to the work of several English commentators; but they are at least competent...