AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

Former President Harry S. Truman steps thorough the door of his office in the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Kansas City, May 31, 1953. Although the...

This is the home of director Cecil B. De Mille in Hollywood, Calif. shown in this photo dated May 31, 1953. The house has 19 rooms on 2 1/2 acres of...

Visitors of the art exhibition inside

Visitors of the art exhibition inside

Visitors of the art exhibition inside

Don Whitehead is congratulated by Pat Morin, a fellow AP writer, after announcement May 4, 1953 that Whitehead won the Pulitzer prize for national rep...

Pvt. Jose Garcia, 29, of Los Angeles, leans from bus window at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., as he is reunited with his brother, Alfonso, May 1, 1953...

American GIs captured by the Communist in Korea and exchanged in operation Little Switch as they board a transport plane at Tokyos Haeda Airport April...

Sen. Joe McCarthy, left, and Rep. Harold H. Velde, chairmen of the Senate investigating groups, chat beside a lamp post before going into the White Ho...

Sick and wounded Communist prisoners of war board a Red-Cross-marked bus after disembarking from an LST which brought them from Cheju, April 19, 1953....

The world famous Danish author Karen Blixen is awarded the Golden Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at the same time made an honor...

Italian actress Anna Magnani, center, visits American soprano Leontyne Price, right, and LeVern Hutcherson, who are starring in the opera

Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, right, and his wife, contess Vera Wilhelmine, are seen at Frankfurt am Main's airport, West Germany, on their wa...

Actress Hedy Lamarr indicates her feelings after becoming a U.S. citizen in Los Angeles, April 10, 1953. She was among a group from 34 countries who r...

Seargent first class George Naugle of San Antonio, Texas, and M/Sg. Frederick Radde, right, of Meridian, Miss., check over their report on U.S. Army h...

Director Cecille B. DeMille, left, joins Mary Pickford, who presented him with his Oscar award on March 19, 1953 for the best picture category in Hol...

This is the new electric car that was purchased by the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., for Bobby Jones to use to get about the course, Mar...

Stretched on a bed, in an upstairs bedroom of house number two, is a mannequin ready to test the effects of an atomic explosion at the atomic proving...

Mannequins seated at a table in the dining room of house number two, attend a

Mr. and Mrs.Harry James Goodman, receive part of their prizes from Randy Merriman, left, and Bess Myerson, right, of a televison quiz program after Ma...

This is a road in Kebili, in the desert of southern Tunisia, seen March 13, 1953. (AP Photo/Max Nash)

Dave Hirsch driving a Jaguar

Christine Jorgensen, 26-year-old former Bronx, N.Y., soldier who was transformed into a woman by Danish surgeons, smiles as she receives a scroll from...

Jane Martin remains seated and

Harry Gallatin, New York Knickerbocker's rebounding ace, February 28, 1953. (AP Photo)

Soprano Leontyne Price shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to France James Dunn following her performance in

Cotton Owens of Spartanburg, S.C., left, winner of the 100-mile modified and sportsmen stock car race over the beach road course in Daytona Beach on F...

Cotton Owens of Spartanburg, S.C., left, winner of the 100-mile modified and sportsmen stock car race over the beach road course in Daytona Beach on F...

Christine Jorgensen is seen on her arrival by air in New York, Feb. 12, 1953, from Denmark. Christine, 26, changed her gender from man to woman throu...

Army Nurse Capt. Genevieve Santori, who travels with

Josef Stalin is shown in this photo dated February of 1943. March 5, 1953 (AP Photo)

Unveiling of the Bobby Jones painting at Golf House in New York, Jan. 31, 1953, are from L to R.: Thomas E. Stephen, artist, N.Y.C.; Clifford Roberts,...

Rosemary Clooney was overwhelmed when her friends in Maysville presented a live calf while she was in town for the world premiere of her first movie i...

Clyde Lovellette, 6'9

Jade Snow Wong watches a worker, Miss Valerie Wong (no relation), apply enamel to a copper bowl in her roomy workshop in San Francisco January 23, 195...

Jade Snow Wong removes ceramics from the kiln in her San Francisco plant after firing and cooling. At left is Miss Kathy Okada who does much of the op...

Jade Snow Wong, San Francisco ceramist and author who left for the Far East recently on a lecture tour with her husband poses January 23, 1953. Born 3...

Brooklyn Dodger's Vice President E.J.

Thomas J. Dodd, new democratic congressman from West Hartford, Conn., poses in Washington, Jan. 3, 1953, with Mrs. Dodd and five of their six childre...

University of Texas head football coach Ed Price has his hair mussed by end Tom Stolhadske, right, and guard Harley Sewell as they celebrate their 16-...

University of Texas coach Ed Price, right, gives a few pointers to his three co-captains as the Longhorns work out in Dallas, Tex., Dec. 29, 1952, for...

The Christmas spirit is well in evidence on the Korean front as Seventh Division GIs spell out a snowy holiday message to the folks at home on Dec. 14...

Rosemary Clooney poses for a photo in Los Angeles, Nov. 20, 1952. (AP Photo)

Virginia state's attorney general J. Lindsay Almond, left, talks with assistant attorney general Henry T. Wickham in Washington, D.C., December 10, 19...

To illustrate the contrast between the playthings of many years ago and those of today, the Henry Ford Museum is presenting its second Annual Toy and...

Famed pilot Harold Fischer Jr. pictured in 1953. Fischer was reported missing in action on April 8 of that year. (AP Photo)

Sam Fuller, center, may seem to be carried away with his work but it's just part of the job he has as director for

Screen star Clark Gable is seen in 1953. (AP Photo)

An uptown view from Broadway and 42nd Streets is seen at the crossroads of New York on Nov. 26, 1952. Broadway continues to the left of the Chevrolet...

Terry Debay, left, and Donn Moomaw, UCLA linebackers, November 20, 1952. (AP Photo)