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Alistair Cooke's Emmy-winning history of the U.S. from Colonial days to the 1970s, filmed on location, offers a panoramic yet personal look at the birth and growth of America. The series was also known as 'Alistair Cooke's America.'

Bill Stern recaps the PGA golf tour after the summer season, with a lot of stock footage, featuring various golfers of the era, but mainly Texaan Byron Nelson, who walked away with most of the tournaments and titles and money in 1945.

In 1945 golfer Byron Nelson set the PGA record for most consecutive golf tournaments won, with eleven in a row, and seventeen overall in a single year. The records still stand. Shortly thereafter he retired from the PGA tour, while still in his 30s. Bill Stern watches Nelson giving lessons on how to play various iron-shots.

This short, filled with stock-footage from a previous RKO short featuring golfer Ben Hogan, zeroes in on his golfing techniques, while, in April, practicing on the course of The National Golf Club, in Augusta, Georgia, in preparation for the 1953 Masters tournament.

Famous American golf professionals are seen from "The Masters" in Augusta, Georgia to Pebble Beach in California fighting their constant battle against par. Seven of them also take time to demonstrate their skills with a gold club; Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Gary Middlecoff, Ed Dudley, Dick Metz, Horton Smith, and Joe Kirkwood.