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Frank Sinkwich, star halfback of the University of Georgia, is besieged by autograph hunters at a dinner where he was awarded the John W. Heisman Trop...

Joseph R. Taylor, President of the Downtown Athletic Club, awards Frank Sinkwich (center), star halfback of the University of Georgia, the John W. Hei...

Peter Pihos, Indiana end, was named right end on the all star big ten football team chosen for the Associated Press, 1943. (AP Photo)

NEW YORK, August 20, 1954,--Former Lt. General Reinhard Gehlen, called Germany's

Native Americans of the Cherokee Nation are shown during a harvest festival in Cherokee, N.C., Nov. 30, 1942. (AP Photo)

A young Cherokee woman in traditional dress points toward the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Nov. 30, 1942, which is considered a sacred site by t...

Chairs are piled up inside the charred Cocoanut Grove night club in the Back Bay section of Boston, Nov. 29, 1942, after last night's fire in which 49...

This is what remains of the revolving door of the Cocoanut Grove night club where scores of patrons died trying to get out during a fire in the Back B...

A soldier and a member of the Navy's shore patrol search through charred wreckage at the Cocoanut Grove night club where a disastrous fire caused the...

Survivors of the Cocoanut Grove night club fire in the Back Bay section of Boston are carried out to safety during chaotic rescue efforts, Nov. 28, 19...

Smoke pours from the Cocoanut Grove night club, right, during the fire of Nov. 28, 1942 in the Back Bay section of Boston. Four hundred ninety two pe...

University of Georgia tailback Charles Trippi is seen Nov. 16, 1942 in Athens, Georgia. (AP Photo)

Industrial diamonds, always important in peace time, are practically indispensable on the home production front during wartime. Used for such war-mar...

Maurice S. Dessau, left, shown with his son, Stephen M. Dessau, sorting and inspecting industrial diamonds in their Manhattan office November 14, 194...

U.S. Marine sergeants at Parris Island, S.C., make personal inspections of a recruit platoon, Nov. 12, 1942. (AP Photo)

Hedy Lamarr does a tropical dance in

Historic U.S. Marines uniforms are on display at the Marines museum at the Marines base at Quantico, Va., seen Oct. 20, 1942. These uniforms are from...

Frank Sinkwich, 21, whips around left end against Tulane to register an eight-yard gain in the first quarter of the game at Athens, Ga., Oct. 17, 1942...

Charlie Chaplin, left, screen comedian, and Orson Welles, of stage, screen and radio fame, talk things over in before the open meeting October 17, 194...

A long line of German soldiers marching into captivity escorted by armed guards of the Russian Army October 9, 1942. (AP Photo)

John Wayne finds he can play in pictures and satisfy his love for chess almost at the same time. When he has a few minutes to idle he engages Marlene...

Workmen prepare to lower one of the 100-pound metal cornices from the Hotel Ansonia in New York, Sept. 22, 1942. The hotel began scrapping thousands o...

Down south in the land of Dixie, young black people are picking the cotton crop---an important commodity because of the huge demands by the U.S. Armed...

In this general view of part of the huge crowd, estimated at more than 75, 000, that jammed into the Yankee Stadium August 23, 1942 at Yankee Stadium...

Three of Hollywood's most glamorous beauties give themselves a cheer in a new film

At the Uyu River in Burma, the retreating party led by Lt. Gen Joseph W.Stillwell abandoned their vehicles and took to quickly constructed rafts. Here...

Horses and vegetable wagons load up with the day's sales at 75th Street off of First Avenue in New York, July 30, 1942. Old dobbin's emergence from re...

Associated Press correspondent Fred Vanderschmidt, July, 13, 1942. (AP Photo)

Helen Carr, employee of the War Department, in Washington July 13, 1942, seems puzzled as she reads this sign displayed in the Public Relations House...

Horses and wagons of the Fink Baking Corporation return to the stables on East 76th Street on completion of the day's rounds in New York, July 30, 194...

Women workers at the St. Louis Ordnance plant inspect 50 calibre shell casings. This is the first inspection of the shells after they come through the...

Lt. Vernon Smith, an All-American end at the University of Georgia more than a decade ago, is now an athletic officer at the Morris Field Army Air Bas...

Major General Dwight D.Eisenhower, Left, arrives in London to command American forces in the European theater of the war, talks, June 25, 1942 with th...

King Peter of Yugoslavia, wearing a uniform a bit too large--it had to be borrowed after a change in plans brought him to the U.S. ahead of schedule o...

Nineteen-year-old king Peter of Yugoslavia, left, laughs heartily as President Roosevelt tells him a joke during ceremonies which welcomed the young k...

King Peter, left,19-year-old monarch of Yugoslavia, stands at salute with President Roosevelt, center, and Captain John McCrea, right, the President's...

Long streams of light play on the speaker's platform as the Soviet and American flags hang overhead at the Russian War Relief Rally in Madison Square...

Alvin Steinkopf, Associated Press Correspondent, in Berlin office of AP, June 9, 1942. (AP Photo)

Rep. Richard M. Klebero (D-text) as he appeared as chaiman of a meeting of about a hundred congressmen which met in the house caucus room in Washingto...

On the production floor of an Army Ordance Department Arsenal, 16-Inch seacoast cannon are readied for shipment. Two guns at lower right have already...

Private Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing champion, holding a plaque of the late Jack Blackburn, shows it to his mother, Mrs. Lilly Barrow Brooks, at...

A crowd of customers gather at Sloppy Joe's soft drink stand during a dimout in Times Square, New York, May 21, 1942. Dimouts were necessary to conser...

All bright exterior lights on this light lunch shop at 45th and Broadway, in New York have been extinguished under drastic dimout regulations of the a...

Customers gather at soft drink stand during a dimout in Times Square, New York, May 21, 1942. Dimouts were necessary to conserve energy and also cloak...

Artists and writers who formed a group called the

With some famous signs already darkened because of

Private Joseph Louis Barrow, world heavyweight boxing champion, chats with the Rev. G. Caleb Moor as they leave the Hotel Astor, New York, April 26, 1...

After pedalling for more than 50 blocks, these bicyclists enter the home stretch and streak for breakfast at the Stork Club where the Fifth Annual Bic...

The latest idea of the San Francisco Citizens' Win The War Committee to make residents of the city war conscious are a book of matches shaped like Ja...

Trucks loaded with Russian soldiers are pictured as they rumble through the streets of Moscow enroute to the advanced lines of the Soviet-German war f...