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Shoppers buy fruits and vegetables on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, July 10, 1949. (AP Photo/Tony Camerano)

Argentine Race car driver Benedicto Campos during practice at Rheims , July 16, 1949 for the French Grand Prix. (AP Photo/Jean Aubry)

A centrally-located stock exchange for midwestern traders is to open in the coming months in Chicago, seen here June 10, 1949. The merger will includ...

A U.S. immigration border patrolman, right, checks the papers of two passengers seeking to debark from the Polish liner Batory in New York, June 4, 19...

Actress Agnes Moorehead is seen about to take her bike for a spin on the path of her Hollywood home, May 29, 1942. (AP Photo)

David Bohm, an atomic scientist teaching at Princeton University, enters House Un-American Activities Committee hearing room in Washington, May 25, 19...

David Mannes, 83-year-old composer and music school director, doffs his cap to Melinda Norris of Wilton, Conn., as he sits in the cab of a New York, N...

French Writer Andre Maurois,left, kisses the hand off Lillian Gish at a super party given by Parisian Dress Designer Pierre Balmain at the Restaurant...

People raise their clenched fists in a welcoming salute for the Chinese Communists forces entering the city of Peking, May 2, 1949. Behind them are po...

Two of the world's most famous diamonds, the 44 1/2-carat Hope and the 100-carat Star of the East, top and bottom, rest on the little stand at right i...

Arnold Palmer, left, Wake Forest College player Latrobe, Pa., and Frank Stranahan, British amateur champion from Toledo, Ohio, are paired April 22 in...

Herbert A. Philbrick, a government witness, smiles in New York's Federal Court Building, April 12, 1949, after testifying at the conspiracy trial of 1...

Cliff Roberts, center with cap, chairman of the Masters Golf Tournament, is flanked by Byron Nelson, left, with legs crossed, and Bobby Jones, right,...

A Jewish refugee family from Yemen outside their mud house in the American Joint Distribution camp in Aden, March 29, 1949, awaitng transfer to Israel...

In a classroom of Cornell Univercity, John C. Snedeker, of Little East Neck Road, Babylon, N.Y., explains the fine Points of a 13-foot Narrasketuck s...

Minneapolis Lakers George Mikan, 99, wearing glasses, gets his hair mussed by teammates in New York's Madison Square Garden dressing room, Feb. 22, 19...

Robert Mitchum gets his blood pressure checked by head Nurse H.E.Sidwell at the Los Angeles County jail, Feb.15, 1949 as he was certified for transfer...

This is the new Marwyn racing car, displayed in London on February 10, 1949. It's 500 c.c. engine, with piston displacement, is mounted behind the...

Victor Kravchenko turns his back on his ex-wife Zinaina Gorlova as she testifies February 7, 1949, during a hearing at the Place of Justice in Paris o...

This is the wreckage of the 1949 Cadillac golfer Ben Hogan was driving when he was in a collision with a bus near Van Horn, Texas, February 2, 1949 wh...

George Mikan (99) center of the Minneapolis Lakers of the BasketAssocoation of America takes a rebound in last night's basketball game with the Washin...

-Victor Kravchenko (center), author of

Seen here is Victor Kravchenko holding up a document during his opening declaration in the trial in Paris January 24, 1949. He accuses the French pro-...

Yellow cabs line New York's Fifth Avenue, Jan. 15, 1949. A New York company proposes to introduce some of the smaller British cabs which are said to...

New York Knickerbockers Carl Braun posing for a picture on Decemer 22, 1948. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

Doak Walker of Southern Methodist, selected by sportswriters and broadcasters as winner of the Heisman Memorial Trophy as the nation's outstanding col...

Doak Walker, star Southern Methodist back, looks over Heisman Memorial Trophy in New york December 7, 1948. Picked as the nation's outstanding college...

Sir Laurence Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh are seen arriving at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square, London, Nov. 29, 1948, for the Command Film...

Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, vice president and the consultant of RCA laboratories division, of America, right, is shown receiving the Chevalier cross of...

Doak Walker, Southern Methodist star back, displays his passing form during practice in Dallas, Tex., November 11, 1948. (AP Photo)

Doak Walker, Ace Southern Methodist back, shows his kicking form during practice in Dallas, Tex., November 11, 1948 that has caused him to lead the So...

Prof. Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Nobel Prize winner for physics, is seen, Nov. 4, 1948. (AP Photo)

Writer Ernest Hemingway takes a ride in a gondola October 30, 1948 on the Grand Canal at Venice, Italy. In the fall of 1948, Hemgway made his first...

General view of a ceremony in front of the Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, New York, Oct. 12, 1948. (AP Photo/Staff)

Tommy Holmes, left, Boston Braves right fielder whose eighth-inning single drove in the winning run, and Johnny Sain, who held the Indians to four hit...

Boston Braves Johnny Sain delivers the ball in the syle that held the Cleveland Indians to four hits as he pitched the first World Series shutout sinc...

Boston Braves Johnny Sain delivers the ball in the syle that held the Cleveland Indians to four hits as he pitched the first World Series shutout sinc...

Frank Boucher, extreme left, manager-coach of the New York Rangers, talks to members of the Rangers' squad prior to the first workout of the squad at...

Leaders of the Jewish force, Irgun Zvei Leumi, announce to the press their acceptance of the demand by the Israeli provisional government for the imme...

Johnny Sain, Boston Braves pitcher, winds up during Sept. 14, 1948 game with the Chicago Cubs at Boston in which he pitched his 20th win of the year f...

Johnny Sain, Boston Braves pitcher, shown during the Sept. 14, 1948 game with the Chicago Cubs at Boston in which he pitched his 20th win of the year...

Lacking space, Joseph Bruno, Jr., displays his paintings on the side of a newsstand during the 34th semi-annual Washington Square Art Exhibit in New Y...

The movie and radio studios in Hollywood were practically abandoned Aug. 26, 1948, when 60 of the performers hustled out to Gilmore Field Ball Park, d...

Music-minded Jack Rosenberg, right, shines shoes while his appreciative customer listens to his records near Times Square, New York, Aug. 18, 1948. Ja...

The Bankhead Tunnel which crosses the Mobile River to Blakely Island in Mobile, Ala., is seen, Aug. 17, 1948. It was the first tunnel built in the so...

Arthur Wint, centre, gold medal, and Herb McKenley, right, silver medal, both from Jamaica and Mel Whitfield of the USA, bronze medal, at Wembley Stad...

Arthur Wint, left and Herb McKenley, both from Jamaica, in their dressing room, at Wembley Stadium, London, Aug. 5, 1948, after they had both qualifie...

Arthur Wint of Jamaica, left, is seen winning the men's Olympic Games 400 metres final at Wembley, London, Aug. 5, 1948. Herb McKenley of Jamaica, rig...

Mel Whitfield of the USA, no. 136, right, wins the final of the Olympic Games 800 metres, at Wembley Stadium, London, Aug. 2, 1948, with Arthur Wint...

Four painters nonchalantly carry their paint cans and equipement to a new location on the Queensboro Bridge in New York, July 31,1948. Below is the Ea...