AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

Harry S. Truman, ex-President of the United States, says he's not superstitious as he walks under a ladder while walking back to his office in Kansas...

Action at Nakayama track in Japan is seen, 1954. (AP Photo)

A Gustave Dore biblical illustration

Karen Sharpe shows her way with a brace of six shooters as she handles them in TV role in Los Angeles, Nov. 15, 1953. (AP Photo)

Julius La Rosa hands autographed photographs to hundreds of his fans who crowd around the stage door of the Metropolitan Theatre after he opened a fiv...

Tiquisate, the center of the United Fruit Company's banana growing operation on Guatemala's Pacific Coast, is shown in a photo on Nov. 4, 1953. (AP Ph...

Julius La Rosa waves to a crowd from the ramp of an airplane arriving from New York to Logan International Airport in Boston as reporters and photogra...

Soldiers of different nations have joined hands in many far-off places and the neutral zone in Panmunjom, Korea, provides the meeting ground for these...

Dorothy McGuire and Julius La Rosa, both members of the Arthur Godfrey radio and TV show cast until La Rosa was fired, pose in Miamisburg, Ohio on Oct...

Julius La Rosa, who was fired from the Arthur Godfrey shows, listens to a question, answers and awaits the next query at a press conference in Ed Sull...

Officers of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace view a cornerstone in United Nations Plaza in New York, Oct. 19, 1953. From left to right:...

Actor Boris Karloff gets bitten by six-year-old Patrizia Remiddi during a scene for

A Few days after the abduction and slaying of little Bobby Greenlease the kidnap killers were in Custody. Bonnie Heady and Carl Austin Hall stood hand...

A screaming Chinese Communist soldier holds his tattooed chest as he stands in reception tent at Panmunjom, Korea, September 27, 1953. He and other Ch...

Ohio State Head Coach Woody Hayes gets down low to look at members of his line as they lunge forward in defensive position, September 25, 1953. (AP Ph...

Ohio State linemen slam their shoulders into the big blocking sled September 25, 1953 used by coach Hayes to condition the men. (AP Photo)

Carl Erskine, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, smiles in dressing room September 17, 1953 after he won his twentieth victory of the season. At left is Wayne...

Top of the R.C.A. building at 50th St and 6th Ave in New York City Sept. 2, 1953. (AP Photo/Ed Ford)

Maureen Connolly of San Diego, Calif., poses behind king-sized tennis racquet before starting defense of her title in the National Tennis Championship...

A country store, the only one in the tiny hilltop community, is shown in Plymouth, Vt., Aug. 19, 1953. The store is where Calvin Coolidge was born in...

North Korean prisoners brought from Koje-do off southern Korea move off the dock after unloading from USS LSU-1317 at Inchon, August 11, 1953. The pri...

Actor Boris Karloff sits as studio make-up chief Bud Westmore, right, and make-up artist Jack Kevan start to encase his head in a rubber mask for his...

North Korean prisoners of war file past tables July 29, 1953 as American guards check their records and see that thay have been issued new clothing an...

Glenn Mickens makes first pitch in game for Brooklyn Dodgers in 9th inning of first game, July 19, 1953. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons)

The feet of Stephen Franse, Greenwich Village night club owner, stick out of the right side of his new, two-toned sedan after his severely-beaten body...

American and Korean soldiers lower the canvas-wrapped body of a Chinese soldier into a grave at a cemetery near the front lines, June 14, 1953 in Kore...

Ben Hogan, bantam golfing ace, drives from sand trap on ninth hole of Oakmont course in Oakmont, Pa., June 9, 1953 after he said he wrenched his back...

Bill Vukovich waves from the cockpit of his Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser after winning the Indy 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 30, 1953. (AP Photo...

A seven-man U.S. Expedition to Mount Godwin Austin arrived in Karachi May 27, 1953. From left to right are Dr. S.M. Ali (Education Ministry, Governmen...

Under floodlights on a hot May 26, 1953 night several hundred young Chinese danced to the Goddess of Youth who stands in the center. The dance was a r...

A half dozen U.N. ambulances move into the Communist exchange area at Panmunjom to unload repatriates sick and wounded prisoners during the second day...

Scene at Freedom Village, in Korea, April 21, 1953 during second day's exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of war. The repatriated UN soldiers walk...

American medics carry sick and wounded Communist prisoners from an LST (Landing, Ship, Tanks) at Pusan, Korea, April 17, 1953 after trip from Chejudo...

Herbert Philbrick displays a book he said is used to teach young communists as he testifies April 7, 1953 before the Senate Internal Security Subcommi...

Leaders of the Democratic Party gathered for a meeting of the executive committee at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, April 1, 1953. Senator Lyndo...

Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman is followed by two Los Angeles detectives as he walks on the deck of the SS President Cleveland in Los Angeles,...

John Wayne shows the gold statuettes he accepted for Gary Cooper and John Ford to two former Academy Award winners, Olivia De Havilland and Janet Gayn...

Actor Boris Karloff and his wife, Evelyn Hope Helmore arrive at the International Theater for the annual Academy Awards presentation, March 19, 1953....

University of Indiana coach Branch McCracken is carried off the floor by the Hoosiers after they defeated Kansas in the NCAA finals in Kansas City, Mi...

Billie Jean Williams, widow of the late country singer Hank Williams, testified March 17, 1953 in Oklahoma City to a legislative committee into activi...

Charlie Chaplin, famous silent film star,left, is greeted by his old friend, French writer Jean Cocteau, at right, on March 7, 1953 at Nice Airport, F...

The long rows of ticket offices at the Rome Central Station were closed Mar. 12, 1953 due to the Italian railroad strike. (AP Photo/Remo Nassi)

Singer Rosemary Clooney gives Paramount Pictures Board Chairman Adolph Zukor a congratulatory kiss at a March 4, 1953 dinner in New York honoring Zuko...

Rep. Olin Teague (right) of Texas, congratulates Sen. Lyndon Johnson after the Texas state society at its Feb. 27, 1953 meeting elected Johnson as it...

Rep. Olin Teague (right) of Texas, congratulates Sen. Lyndon Johnson after the Texas state society at its Feb. 27, 1953 meeting elected Johnson as it...

A wide-eyed teddy bear, from one of the exhibits at the National Photo Show at Grand Central Palace in New York, tries his hand at picture-making with...

University of Indiana coach Branch McCracken, center, is shown with members of his team, from left to right, Bobby Leonard, Jim Schooley, McCracken, D...

Three men who are slated for important posts in the Treasury Department appear before the Senate Finance Committee, Jan. 26, 1953. From left, T. Colem...

Nathan Leopold, right, thrill-slayer who has served 28 years in prison for the 1924 murder of a 14-year-old boy, talks with Prof. William Byron, North...

Nathan Leopold, convicted in the 1924 murder of a 14-year-old boy, is seen as he waits for an appearance before the Illinois parole board in Joliet, I...