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Nan Britton reading a book in a 1939 photo. (AP Photo)

University of Kansas' Clyde Lovellette, from Terre Haute, Ind., drew the most votes of the 1952 Associated Press all-America college basketball team a...

An indignant resident of Seoul clipped a Koren communist sympathizer on the chin on Dec. 9, 1950 in this street scene after U.S. Marines and South Kor...

Manhattan College center Junius Kellogg is seen, Dec. 5, 1950. (AP Photo)

Hollywood actress Gene Tierney suns herself after a dip at Venice, Italy where she is staying for the film festival. She is seen here on the terr...

Seen here is Edgar A. Guest, noted newspaper poet for the Detroit Free Press in 1951. (AP Photo)

Randall Jarrell, poet of Greensboro, North Carolina, was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1914 and until he was thirteen lived most of the time in Cali...

Republican Congressman Richard M. Nixon congratulates himself as he checks an election scoreboard in Los Angeles, Nov. 7, 1950, showing him leading De...

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The central control panel in the new control room of the Rome Railway station, October 5, 1950. The panel shows all the tracks, positioning of trains...

The interior of the new Rome Rail Station, practically finished October 5, 1950 after 7 years of work. Photo shows entrance to the various restaurants...

Combat Outfitted Marines carrying rifles move along a Seoul street with a wounded buddy on a litter September 30, 1950. The South Korean capital and v...

Sadler's Wells Ballet Company of London are seen at a reception at the English Speaking Union in New York City, Sept. 28, 1950. Front row, left to ri...

Father Patrick Peyton, founder of the weekly Family Theater radio broadcasts from Hollywood, is shown with film stars John Lund and Rita Johnson on on...

Prof. L.N. Alvarez of California, left, and Prof. N. F. Ramsay of Harvard are seen at the Oxford International Atom conference, Sept. 7, 1950. (AP Pho...

A view of the one of the oldest Buddhist Temples remaining in Korea, August 30, 1950. The wooden temple with its elaborate wood carvings was built dur...

Singer Mel Torme and his wife Candy Toxton have lunch at the Hollywood Brown Derby, Aug. 28, 1950. (AP Photo)

Rita Hayworth, the Princess Ali Khan, center, is the guest of honor at a gala in aid of the Jockey's Hospital in Deauville, France, August 22, 1950....

A United States Marine, wounded in action during the offensive in the Chinju area in Korea, August 12, 1950 is carried from the fighting front on a st...

German actress Hildegard Knef is seen standing on the gangway holding a bunch of flowers after landing at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, West Germa...

Medics attend leg wound of one of injured American soldiers aboard hospital train carrying them from the Kumchon sector in Korea, August 3, 1950. (AP...

Pfc. Dominic A. Chiera, medical corpsman from Cohoes, N.Y., gives first aid to riflemen on a train evacuating wounded from Taejon, Korea, July 24, 195...

Tennis player Althea Gibson of Tallahassee, Fla., completes a return in her first round of play against Mela Ramirez, the Mexican women's champ, July...

Actress Gloria Swanson, in Chicago for the opening of her latest movie

A view across the Me Nam River from Bangkok's Wat Arun (temple of the sun), showing the main part of the city in the distance and spires of he royal t...

Argentine President Juan Peron smiles as he points two cigarette lighters in the shape of pistols July 3, 1950. Peron received the lighters from Amon...

Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) walks in the capitol plaza with the Capitol in the background, June 14, 1950, in Washington D.C. (AP Photo/Herb...

Sid Caesar is shown in the dressing room of the Roxy Theater in New York, June 9, 1950. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin)

Elmer W. Henderson, seated, a Washington man whose lawsuit was the basis for a Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in railroad dining cars, o...

These are the grey green eyes of actress Gene Tierney, photographed in Hollywood May 24, 1950 as she told a news conference she had willed her eyes up...

These are the grey green eyes of actress Gene Tierney, photographed in Hollywood May 24, 1950 as she told a news conference she had willed her eyes up...

Claude Marchant, and Isole Sullivan go through their paces May 19, 1950 in one of the South American dances at the Astoria night club in Milan. (AP Ph...

Smallest engine in a car entered in the 1950 500-mile class at indianapolis is this tiny Lou Meyer power plant which has a 107 cubic inch piston displ...

Radio City Music Hall's Corps de Ballet takes to the theater's landscaped sports roof for rehearsals, May 13, 1950. Here, the corps prepares a new Ch...

US American William Averell Harriman, left, US envoy for the Marshall Plan, stands next to Lord mayor of Berlin, Ernst Reuter, translating a poster mo...

A sign on a front lawn warns communists to stay out of Mosinee, Wisc., May 1, 1950, as the town observes

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A "communist" is hanged in effigy at Mosinee, Wisc., May 1, 1950, as the American Legion of Mosinee staged a "Communist Day". (AP Photo)

A lone steel union member, left foreground, looks at the U.S. flag after it was raised over the homestead works of the US Steel Company at Pittsburgh,...

Indoan Prime Minister Pandit Nehru, left, and Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan sign an agreement on the measures to be adopted to deal with...

A view of the main entrance to the Library of Congress, in Washington, DC, April 6, 1950. Started in 1800 when congressmen decided they needed a libra...

Swedish actress Zarah Leander, right, accompanied by her 21-year-old son, Goeran Leander, is interviewed in the afternoon by a jounalist in Bad Hombur...

Students set off a simulated atomic bomb explosion during classroom study of atomic energy at Anacostia High School in Washington D.C., March 25, 1950...

Mexican migratory farm workers cut asparagus in a field near Bakersfield, Calif., March 22, 1950. The workers move from one ranch or farm to another a...

The British war cemetery on the outskirts of Cassino, Italy, March 13, 1950, where more than five thousand troops, who died in the battle for Cassino,...

A partly rebuilt restaurant , right foreground, is open for business whilst work continues on the upper floor, in Cassino, Italy, March 13, 1950. Also...

Sen. Joseph McCarthy's (R-Wis) at a March 9, 1950 session of a hearing on McCarthy's charges of Communist infiltration in the state department. McCar...

Top winners in the ninth annual science talent search pose in Washington, D.C., March 6, 1950, with Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer of Princeton, seated, se...