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Shirley Temple whispers to her husband, John Agar, as they wait for the new film "Fort Apache" to begin, at the premier in Hollywood, Calif, Oct. 18,...

Actress Shirley Temple and husband John Agar play with their three month old daughter, Linda Susan Agar in Hollywood, Calif., May 23, 1948. (AP Photo)

This is a view from the steps of the City Hall, of downtown Texas City, Tex., a year after the explosions and fires that leveled much of the coastal t...

Wrecked box cars and debris still are in evidence in the Texas City, Tex., waterfront area following explosions of April 16 and 17, 1947, shown April...

This is a view of the Monsanto Chemical plant, shown April 2, 1948, nearly a year after the disastrous explosions and fires that destroyed parts of Te...

Wreckage of freighter Wilson B. Keene still in the main slip of the Texas City dock area, shown April 2, 1948, nearly a year after the disaster that l...

This is one of the new houses built in the residential area of Texas City, Tex., near the Monsanto Chemical plant, shown Oct. 29, 1947. Most of the bu...

A road has been cleared through the heaped wreckage caused by a series of explosions and fires in Texas City, Tex., shown may 18, 1947, a month after...

The flag still flies at half mast, May 17, 1947, in Texas City, Tex., in honor of those who lost their lives in the disaster one month ago, as quiet...

A solemn high requiem Mass for victims of the Texas City disaster was held on the lawn of the heavily damaged St. Mary's Catholic Church in Texas City...

The industrial area of the coastal town Texas City, Tex., presented this view after fires, raging since April 16, had dwindled to a few smoldering hea...

Only smoldering ruins remained at Texas City, Tex., along the dock area, April 20, 1947, following the explosion of a ship on April 16 that caused a s...

The Monsanto Chemical plant presented this view of destruction from the air after fires, burning since April 16, subsided, April 20, 1947. (AP Photo)

Four crew members, among seven known survivors of the freighter Grandcamp, receive treatment at Texas City, Tex., April 19, 1947. The Grandcamp, a for...

This huge grain elevator, standing amid the rubble and wreckage of the demolished industrial area of Texas City, Tex., forms a background for this sce...

A crowd gathers on the Texas City school football field late April 19, 1947, to attend a memorial service for those who lost their lives in a series o...

Fires continue to burn on the waterfront at Texas City, Tex., April 18, 1947, after a series of blasts swept the dock area of the city. The Monsanto C...

Some of the many workers who spent the night at the disaster scene at Texas City, Tex., huddle in sleeping bags and under blankets on the ground early...

Longshoreman L.C. Hill, center, injured in the initial explosion in the Texas City disaster, has his bandages changed at a Galveston Hospital, Galvest...

A fireboat, far right, moves in close to pour water on the still smoldering ruins of a dock at the waterfront at Texas City, Tex., April 18, 1947. At...

A line of damaged homes along a street in the residential section of Texas City, Tex., stands silhouetted against a backdrop of oily black smoke pouri...

Nina Fay Adams, center, who lost her father and brother, and whose sister was seriously injured as a result of explosion and fire two days ago at Texa...

Residents of Texas City, Tex., town on the gulf coast torn by blasts April 16, began moving back after partially evacuating the city, April 17, 1947....

The interior of Our Lady of the Snow Church presented this appearance in Texas City, Tex., April 17, 1947, a day after the horrific explosions. A stat...

Mrs. Abraham Marquez, her face bruised and wearing a head bandage, dresses her granddaughter Minerva Hernandez as the two took refuge in the Texas Cit...

A portable bulldozer hoists a truck, loaded with fine debris, from the piles of rubble which litter the Texas City, Tex., waterfront area, April 16, 1...

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - An unidentified priest administers last rites to one of the victims of an explosion and fire in Texas City, Tex., April 1...

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Arms and legs dangling, avictim of the Texas City, Tex., explosions of the coastal city, April 16, 1947. The man was one o...

Film actress Shirley Temple with her husband Jack Agar in fron of their cottage adjoining the two-acre Temple estate in Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 3,...

Ernie Nevers, of the Chicago Rockets football team, Sept. 4, 1946. (AP Photo/Chicago Rockets)

Millionaire sportsman Howard Hughes climbs into his XF-11 photographic plane just before taking it off from the airfield beside his Culver City, Calif...

Native people of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands who had to leave their homes because of the forthcoming atomic bomb tests, lounge in front of th...

Native people of the Bikini Atoll, in the Marshal Islands, where joint Army-Navy bomb test will be held in May 1946, carry their belongings down to th...

Native people of the Bikini Atoll, in the Marshal Islands, where joint Army-Navy bomb test will be held in May 1946, carry their belongings down to th...

Native people being transferred from Bikini Island to Rongerik in the Marshall Islands. Undated photo. (AP Photo)

Shirley Temple and Sgt. John Agar leave Wilshire Methodist Church in Hollywood, Calif., after their wedding Sept. 19, 1945. (AP Photo)

Sgt. John Agar kisses his bride, actress Shirley Temple, as they arrive at the Temple home for a reception that followed their church wedding in Holly...

While her fiance, Sgt. John G. Agar, Jr., looks on, Shirley Temple, 17-year-old screen actress, signs an application for a marriage license issued to...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur leaving ceremony in Japan, Sept. 11, 1945 after American troops entered Tokyo city. (AP Photo)

Adm. William F. Halsy, center, looks on aboard the USS Buchanan in Tokyo Bay, Sept. 5, 1945 as Gen. Douglas MacArthur, right, greets Adm. Chester W....

General Douglas MacArthur is greeted as he steps out of his car to take up duties as military commander of Japan, at his Yokohama headquarters, Sept....

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, center, talks to reporters after his arrival, August 28, 1945 at Atsugi Airport, near Tokyo, Japan, from Manila. (AP Photo)

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Aug. 4, 1945. Location unknown. (AP Photo)

Actress Shirley Temple who will be 17 on April 23 and Sgt. John Agar, 24, looks at her engagement ring after her parents announced their engagement in...

General MacArthur in an undated photo. Location unknown. (AP Photo)

This is a view of Cracow, ancient capital of Poland, Aug. 25, 1944, where an evacuation order for all German women and children has been issued. The c...

General Douglas MacArthur, Aug. 5, 1943. Location unknown. (AP Photo)

William Rivers, football star and coach in New York, April 6, 1943. Rivers was all-American fullback at Stanford, 1924-25, Stanford Univ. coach, 1932-...

This 1943 file photo shows the rubble after the Warsaw ghetto was razed by German forces. (AP Photo)

George McAffe, center right, star halfback with the Chicago Bears last season and now a Chief Specialist in the Navy, chats with coach George Halas on...