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Longines Chronoscope: 1952 Summer Olympics

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New York City
Sunday, July 29, 2012

As the Summer Olympics get underway in London, this is a look back at the 1952 summer games in Helsinki, Finland.  The guest on this 1952 Longines Chronoscope program is U.S. Olympic Committee Secretary Asa Bushnell.  He's asked about the state of women's track and field, how the American team in financed, and about the Soviet Union's first ever participation in the Olympics.  Longines Chronoscope was a public affairs program broadcast on CBS from 1951-55.

Updated: Monday, July 30, 2012 at 10:46am (ET)

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