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A view is shown of Singapore, site of a big British naval base, where on Dec. 1, 1941 a state of emergency was proclaimed. (AP Photo/Deane Dickason)

University of Texas' backfield Jack Crain is seen in 1941. (AP Photo)

Jesse Livemore, Jr, arrives at a New York hotel November 28, 1940. where his father, 62 year old one time

Paris gave Mr. Churchill a demonstrative welcome the like of which no other British Premier can have known, when he passed along the streets and boule...

Charles Mullinix of Bethesda, Md., makes a final appeal for Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection, Nov. 5, 1940. (AP Photo)

Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion, registered under the Selective Service Act at Chicago, IL., October 16, 1940. Here he signs up before registr...

Motion Picture star Gary Cooper eggs on his daughter Maria, 3, as she aims an October snowball at the cameraman in Sun Valley, Ida. on Oct. 14, 1940....

A family of Transylanian peasants, with its belongings including the living room lamp piled atop an oxen-drawn cart, plods along a Romanian road in qu...

University of Texas' Jack Crain is seen, Sept. 26, 1940. (AP Photo)

Phyllis Fraser, Radio editor and cousin of film actress Ginger Rogers, cuts her cake September 17, 1940 in New York after she was married to Bennett C...

A German soldier pushes a cart loaded with heavy artillery ammunition for a big gun at the channel coast, Northern France, September 10, 1940. (AP Pho...

David Rockefeller, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, and Margaret McGrath, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Sims McGrath, were married...

Dr. and Mrs. Serge Voronoff arrive on the S.S. Excalibur on Sept. 6, 1940. Dr. Voronoff is the monkey gland expert. (AP Photo)

These three of several dogs brought from the continent by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are shown working off their sea legs on the lawn of Governme...

Members of the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil industry in the state, are shown during a hearing in Austin, Texas on Aug. 1, 1940....

Financier J.P. Morgan is shown with three children he met on a New York pier on their arrival from England on the liner Britannic, July 29, 1940. The...

Jock Whitney at camp at Plattsburg, N.Y., July 8, 1940. (AP Photo)

The town of Elwood, Ind. is shown, June 29, 1940. (AP Photo)

A sign announces the birthplace of Wendell L Willkie, Republican presidential candidate, in Elwood, Ind., June 29, 1940. (AP Photo)

Donald Canham (left) of Michigan, high jump winner, and Bill Williams of Wisconsin, pole vault winner, in the Big Ten outdoor track and field meet in...

Armed with a permit, Don Julio sings as blichely as a bird to a senorita in San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 11, 1940. The old Spanish custom of wooing a...

Rescue workers begin the task of recovering the dead in the aftermath of a fire in Rhythm Club dance hall in Natchez, Miss., April 25, 1940. (AP Phot...

Victims of the fire at the Rhythm Club in Natchez, Miss., are viewed in a temporary morgue as relatives try to find their loved ones, April 23, 1940....

Tanks photographed on the high ground near Hong Kong during training maneuvres, April 12, 1940. (AP Photo)

This impressive full-length recumbent marble figure of Lawrence of Arabia is a memorial at the country church of St. Martin's, in Wareham, March 21, 1...

Avery Brundage, chairman of the United States Olympic Committee, center, discusses recent Winter Olympics with reporters aboard the liner Queen Mar...

The heart of Boston's shopping district, Boylston Street, had one of the worst blizzards in New England history. On a normal day a scene like this wo...

Glen Miller, the famous band leader, at Arsene Studio in the Strand Theatre Building, Feb. 12, 1940. (AP Photo)

During January several street processions were held in Chungking featuring cloth and paper dragon, February 8, 1940. In contrast to ruined building ca...

Associated Press writer Melvin Whiteleather returning on liner Washington, February 8, 1940. (AP Photo)

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Standing behind their trophies at the Touchdown Club in Washington, D.C., left to right, Ken Kavanaugh of Louisiana State, Nile Kinnick of Iowa and Jo...

Gossip columnist Walter Winchell, left, and actor Al Jolson are seen at a Miami Beach hotel where they are vacationing, Jan. 4, 1940. (AP Photo)

French surgeon Serge Voronoff, who startled the world with his monkey gland

The body of the late J. Butler Wright, U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, who died in Havana, Dec. 4, was carried in this flag-draped casket on a gun carriage t...

Here is an official British War Office photograph of Viscount Gort (left), Commander-In-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, and General Gamelin,...

S.S. President Harding, October 21, 1939. (AP Photo)

Despite Japanese assurances that the latest military moves in East Kwangtung are not aimed at Hongkong, British troops strengthen their barricades, Se...

A German tank on the main street of Radzymin advances against Warsaw which surrendered in Radzymin, Poland on September 27, 1939. (AP Photo)

As a result of peace pamphlets she dropped from an airplane over Washington, Sept. 26, 1939 aviatrix Laura Ingalls may lose her pilot's license. The C...

British troops cheerfully entrain for the first stage of their trip to the western front, somewhere in England, Sept. 20, 1939. (AP Photo/Putnam)

Kenneth Kavanaugh of Louisiana State University is seen, Sept. 15, 1939. (AP Photo)

By using these two means of transportation, travelers may now be in Europe less than five days after leaving Hollywood, San Francisco, or other West C...

Boston Bees' Sebastian Sisti is airborne as he tries, but fails to make the catch to pick off Brooklyn Dodgers' Hugh Casey at second base, Sept. 5, 19...

State Department's division of Communications and Records had a busy day in Washington with European news keeping the wires busy, Sept. 1, 1939. (AP P...

This historic mage shows the world's first jet plane

This historic mage shows the world's first jet plane

A Boeing Stratoliner belonging to millionaire Howard Hughes, is seen at Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, Calif., Aug. 26, 1939. (AP Photo/Ira W....

British soldiers in railway coaches near the Hong Kong border, August 20, 1939. Soldiers pictured are members of the Middlesex regiment. (AP Photo)

D.W. Griffth, left, and Lillian Gish stand at site of the Old Triangle lot on Sunset Blvd., in Hollywood, Calif. on August 18, 1939. Griffith produ...