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Two Jewish refugees, are helped down the gangway of the 400-ton Schooner

The 400-ton Schooner

Morris Frank is shown in Texas, Feb. 6, 1947. (AP Photo)

Model Gladys McDaniel endows this exhibit of molded plexiglas with a bit of glamor during the third annual meeting of the Society of Plastics Engineer...

Otto Feinberg, a longshoreman, listens to his radio as he sits on the terrace wall in front of the New York Public Library on the corner of 42nd Stree...

General Aung San, leader of the Burmese government, arrives at 10 Downing Street, the residence and office of the British Prime Minister, London, Jan....

Place du Martyrs, a town square in downtown Beirut, is seen, Jan. 12, 1947. (AP Photo)

Weygand Avenue in Beirut, Lebanon is seen, Jan. 12, 1947. (AP Photo)

French troops line the rails of the liner Ile De France as others ascend the gangway shortly before the ship raised anchor in Toulon, France on Jan. 1...

Frank Filchock, left,and Merle Hapes New York Giant Football players hold their suspension papers in New York, January 8, 1947. Commissioner Bert Bell...

Actor Cary Grant escorts Betty Hensel, left, to the horse racing at Santa Anita race track at Arcadia, Calif., on December 30, 1946. They study th...

Four of ten young women selected by Mademoiselle magazine as

Mildred Gillars, an American known as

British soldiers pray at the Manger Altar in Bethlehem, Palestine, Dec. 24, 1946, Christmas Eve, as religious ceremonies marking the birth of Christ w...

Members of a pilgrimage from around the U.S. pause before the enshrined body of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Dec. 22, 1946, during special ceremonies m...

A view looking down Powell St. from the Knob Hill district into the heart of the downtown section of San Francisco is shown Dec. 18, 1946. (AP Photo/C...

Relaxing between work periods, Jack Weiderhorn, left and Albert L. Best, play a game of their own design in New York, Dec. 14, 1946. They're using an...

Candice (Candy) Patricia Bergen, seven-month-old daughter of Edgar Bergen and Frances Westorman Bergen, is held by her father after her christening at...

Relatives and friends of people who perished in the Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta, Ga., during the early morning hours of Dec. 7, 1946, try to identi...

Firemen and police, using scaffolding and other emergency stretchers, lay out a number of dead persons who perished in the Winecoff Hotel fire, Dec. 7...

This unidentified man and his wife, whose leg can be seen at right, died in the flames thatr swept the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7, 1946, o...

World heavyweight champion Joe Louis and challenger Jersey Joe Walcott compare like this for their Dec. 4 championship fight at Madison Square Garden...

This is a 1947 stock picture of Pope Pius XII (R) and Msgr. Giovanni Montini, then a close aide to Pope Pius XII and now Pope Pius VI. The Vatican, in...

Capt. Chuck Yeager is seen, 1947. (AP Photo)

Bertha Krupp, wife of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen-Halbach, sits a fully set table in an adjoining building of the family's estate Castle Bluehnbach in th...

"Spruce Goose," the flying boat belonging to millionaire Howard Hughes, is shown in 1947. (AP Photo)

American dancer Ted Shawn does an interpretive dance with inspiration from the thunderbird in performance at Melbourne, Australia in 1947. (AP Photo...

This is Westminster Abbey in London, seen Nov. 14, 1947. Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten will be married here on November 20. (AP Phot...

Bob Neyland, left, University of Tennessee football coach, and Walter Slater, captain of the Volunteers team, are seen at the university's field at Kn...

Christmas shoppers jam the main floor of Macy's department store in New York, Nov. 29, 1946, the Friday after Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/Ed Ford)

Actor Robert Mitchum is seen here in northern California, November, 25, 1946 where RKO is on location filming scenes for

A Jewish woman carrying a small child, crying from the effects of tear gas is escorted to a hospital tent by a British Soldier, in Haifa harbour, Pale...

Two sick Jewish refugees lie on stretcher on a dock at Haifa harbour, Palestine, November 24, 1946, waiting for ambulances to take them to a governmen...

Charley Trippi of the University of Georgia poses for a photo on Nov. 22, 1946 . (AP Photo)

A pioneer and his ox work the land in this undated photo. No other identification available. (AP Photo)

Gertrude Atherton, author of

Gertrude Atherton, author of

The Army football team poses in Yankee Stadium in New York, Nov. 8, 1946. Front row, left to right: Henry Foldberg, Bryant (no first name available)...

New electric trains, seen here Nov. 6, 1946, will go racing around the tracks in many homes this Christmas, as boys (and their fathers) welcome the re...

Friends and members of the Perrin family gather at Lafitte, Louisiana from miles around to honor the dead at the family tombs on All Saints Night, No...

The Perrin family burial grounds at Lafitte, La. is the setting for the Annual All Saints' night gathering November 1, 1946. Friends and relatives P...

Max Bumgardner, end on the University of Texas poses with his son Johnny, mOctober 25, 1946. (AP Photo)

Norman Murray, well-known

In an effort to avoid beeing sent to Cyprus, an illegal immigrant who jumped overboard from the prow of the ship

British troops assist a woman up the gang-plank, transferring the refugees from their ship

An illegal immigrant is sprtayed with D.D.T. powder as a precaution against vermin by British soldiers after being transfered from the ship

In an effort to avoid beeing sent to Cyprus, an illegal immigrant who jumped overboard from the prow of the ship

Mary Washick and Mary Coons, workers at the big Swift & Co. packing plant in Kansas City, Kan., weigh and package sliced bacon on Oct. 17, 1946. Pork...

Ed Crump, right, strikes a smiling pose with a Memphis clown who helped entertain the children on the political leader's annual boat ride October 9,...

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover receives the American Legion's Distinguished Service Medal from past National Commander Frank Benorano Jr. in San Francis...