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Screen actress Gene Tierney comes to her dressing room door for a short conference with leading man Richard Conte, left, and producer Otto Preminger,...

Actress Rita Hayworth, in the thick of Longchamp race track crowd in Paris, June 26, 1949, closes her eyes and leans backward apparently feeling faint...

Argentine President at microphone lauds the five year British-Argentine Trade Pact signed June 27, 1949 in Buenos Aires. From left to right are; Briti...

The Rev. Father Patrick Peyton, producer of Hollywood's Family Theater broadcast, is flanked by Swiss guards after being received in audience by Pope...

The China National Aviation Corportation Building in Beijing displays the symbols of Communism, June 15, 1949. The CNAC structure is just one block fr...

23-year-old smiling German actress Hildegard Knef, is flanked by two West Berlin police officers, after landing at the Tempelhof airfield in West Berl...

23-year-old German actress Hildegard Knef, center, is seen arriving with her Mother Frieda Auguste and her step father Wilhelm Wulfestieg, after landi...

Prof. E.V. Cowdry, cancer researcher, chats with an unidentified Swiss Guard on duty in the Mantovani Loggia, Vatican City, June 13, 1949. (AP Photo)

Cancer researcher Prof. Edward V. Cowdry shakes hands with Friar Agostino Gemelli at the Loggia Mantovani in Vatican City, following an audience with...

23-year-old German actress Hildegard Knef is seen relaxing on a sofa in her house in Beverly Hills' Benedict Canyon, Hollywood, USA, June 11, 1949. (A...

23-year-old German actress Hildegard Knef is seen sitting on a sofa in her house in Beverly Hills' Benedict Canyon, Hollywood, USA, June 11, 1949. (AP...

Pope Pius XII greets Prof. E.V. Cowdry of St. Louis with a handshake during an audience in the Vatican, June 7, 1949. Professor Cowdry, director of t...

People sunbathe and relax at Serpentine Lido, Hyde Park, London, on June 6, 1949. (AP Photo/Staff/Smart)

American actress Rita Hayworth, on the day of her marriage to Prince Aly Khan in the City Hall at Vallauris, France on May 27, 1949. (AP Photo)

Actress Rita Hayworth, right, talks with Madame Wazir Cassamally Munjee, wife of a Bombay, India, merchant, inside the movie theater in Cannes, France...

Rev. Arthur Terminiello, center, shares meal with two unientified people, May 16, 1949. Terminiello was appealed from a conviction in Chicago on a dis...

Rev. Arthur Terminiello, assistant pastor of St. Stephen's Catholic Church, reads dispatch at Pensacola, Fla., May 16, 1949 of U.S. Supreme Court's ru...

United Nations mediator, Dr. Raph Bunche, sits at his desk at home in photo dated May 11, 1949. He is looking at leather bound copies of the Israeli...

Chinese Communist commander General Mao Tse Tung, stands in a jeep as he watches his troops entering Peking, China, May 2, 1949, after driving out the...

A column of Chinese Communist light tanks enter the streets of Peking, May 2, 1949, which are filled with people watching the conquerors pass. (AP Pho...

The vanguard of the Chinese Communist army enter the city of Peking, May 2, 1949, through one of the ancient gates. (AP Photo)

French poet Louis Aragon reads the Congress manifesto at the close of the Congress of Partisans of Peace at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, April 25, 1949....

The garrison at Um Rashrash hoist the new Israeli flag up at the morning parade, April 21, 1949. (AP Photo)

Actors Spencer Tracy, Alan Ladd and Humphrey Bogart backstage at Friars' Frolic, a benefit show for the Motion Picture Relief Fund show at Los Angeles...

Italian fashion designer Emilio Schuberth (of German - Spanish decent) smokes a cigarette in his Schuberth fashion house in Rome, Italy, April 16, 194...

Sam Snead, center, grins broadly as he answers questions from sports writers in the press tent after he won the Masters Golf Tourament, April 10, 1949...

Sam Snead sinks a 20-foot putt on the 18th green to win the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga., April 10, 1949. (AP Photo/Rudolph Faircloth)

After a running start Ugo Bogino of the Ugo Troupe takes off from a Spring Board and leaps over the backs of four elephants to the mat in the foregro...

University of Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp and his team admire NCAA basketball title cup which they won at Seattle, March 26, 1949, by defeating Oklahom...

Principals at the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace stands together prior to the opening dinner of the Conference at the Waldorf-Asto...

Actress Elizabeth Taylor presents the Oscar for best costumes for black and white films to producer William Gordon of Universal-International, who ac...

Actress Agnes Moorehead is seen as she arrives for the Academy Awards, March 24, 1949, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

Business owners of Berlin form a long queue at a branch of Berlin's Spaarkasse (Savings Bank) as they are granted to exchange five per cent of their...

People get a change of East Marks to West Marks at a rate of one to one, which is limited to 15 Marks, in Berlin, Germany, March 21, 1949. Last night...

University of Kentucky's Alex Groza (15) has no trouble getting a rebound from the Villanova backboard during the first half of tonight's NCAA Eastern...

Poet Edgar A. Guest (left) looks into the mouth of a 11-pound large-mouth black bass which is presented to him by Ed Dodd, an outdoor cartoonist, at t...

Robert V. Swift, catcher for the Detroit Tigers is shown in Lakeland, Fla., March 7, 1949. (AP Photo)

Gorgeous George, Hollywood, Calif., wrestler, sails through the air as he is tossed across the ring by Ernie Dusek of Omaha, Neb., during their Februa...

People are seen crowding in front of one of the three official Wechselstube (change booth) in Berlin, Germany, February 19, 1949, where the East-Mark...

Four-year-old John S. Gordon gets a good look at a Toulouse Goose at the

The first President of the State of Israel, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, is sworn in, in the Jewish Agency building, Jerusalem, Feb. 17, 1949, among cheering m...

President of the State Council, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, delivers his opening address to the council, in the Hall of the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, Feb. 14,...

Prime Minister David Ben Gurion stands while a police band plays the national anthem, as he arrives at the Jewish Agency building, in Jerusalem, Feb....

People watch the arrival of many politicians at the Jewish Agency building, Jerusalem, Feb. 14, 1949, for the first meeting of the State Council. (AP...

Settlers of the new town of Yazur dance the

A crowd of people wait to welcome the last of the Jewish refugees, detained in Cyprus by the British authorities, on the harbour dockside at Haifa, Is...

Actor Spencer Tracy sits with Frank Sinatra at studio luncheon at Hollywood, Calif. on February 10, 1949. (AP Photo/Frank Filan)

Collecter, Ward Harris, holds a talking doll with a metal torso that was invented by Thomas Edison, in San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 9, 1949. Harris hol...

A friendly arab, right, watches some of the 100 British and 70 Hungarian Jewish settlers begin to erect one of their new prefabricated houses on the n...

A group of women, the so called rubble women (Truemmerfrauen) are seen working as they remove the damage in the totally bombed out Berlin, January 31,...