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Chinese Nationalist soldiers, walking toward camera, pass wounded buddies on stretchers in a village on the Suchow front, November 25, 1948 where they...

Andrew Carnegie, founder of the Carnegie Steel Company, in his study in New York. (AP Photo)

A huge balloon in the form of comic fireman floats over Broadway during the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, Nov. 25, 1948. Thousand...

O.D. Miller of Sarasota, Fla; Curley Denman of Deming, N.M. and Joe P. Evans of Bainville, Mont., performers with a visiting rodeo, take in the sights...

Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R-N.J.), re-elected to the House of Representatives in the recent election, is seen with his leg up against a piece of furnitu...

Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R-N.J.), chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, walks to the federal court building in Washington, Nov. 4, 19...

Children dance in the courtyard of a new Arab school in Haifa, Palestine, Oct. 25, 1948. The school is sponsored by the Jewish Town Council of Haifa....

Donald S. Bond, left, research engineer, and Jean Montgomery stand beside the receiving unit used in a demonstration of Ultra fax, a new high speed ra...

Patty Painter being photographed by CBS television camera, May 31, 1951. Color cameraman Dick Sedia and Ralph Denn, floor manager holding flowers. Flo...

Eleanor Roosevelt speaks on human rights at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Sept. 28, 1948. (AP Photo/Gerard Yvon Cheynet)

Boxer Joe Louis, center, listens to Mike Jacobs, boxing promoter; as Sugar Ray Robinson looks on at Greenwood Lake, NY, September 16, 1948. Robinson...

"The Dead Room" at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., Sept. 15, 1943, designed to be the quietest place on Earth, is so quiet that...

F.K. Harvey conducts some high frequency audio tests inside the

University of Texas' Bud McFadin is seen, Sept. 14, 1948. (AP Photo/Carl E. Linde)

14-year-old Barry Pariser, checks on the movable ferris wheel which he built out of toothpicks as his sister Linda looks on in New York, Sept., 6, 194...

Looking very smart in a crisp suit, Marie McDonald, movie star, hails a taxi in front of a the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood, Cali. on September...

A guard views a giant refrigerator, presented by members of the British Refrigerator Association, to Princess Elizabeth for a wedding gift, Aug. 23, 1...

Mildred Gillars, center, known to American GIs as

The death of Babe Ruth Aug. 16, 1948 leaves former Yankee outfielder Bob Meusel, now an officer in a security guard at Terminal Island, Calif., as the...

Six miles from El Segundo, Calif. the sand is being discharged through a 28 inch pipe at Ocean Park, Calif., seen here Aug. 2, 1948. Two years of roun...

Seen here is a view looking into the huge sand area where hydraulic pressure washes sand into a 28-inch pipeline which carries it 6-miles along the be...

Cheering, parading delegates carry banners and Pictures of President Harry S.Truman on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadel...

A harvester hacks at sugar cane with his machete in Puerto Rico on June 10, 1948. A gang of workers can cut a field in an hour. (AP Photo/Hamilton Wri...

President Harry S. Truman shown in the Oval Office in Washington, D.C., July 9, 1948. (AP Photo)

Snarled traffic near the entrance of the Holland Tunnel in lower Manhattan, New York, is seen at the start of the Independence Day long weekend, July...

The Trindad and St. Lucia cricket teams are seen playing a match in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, Jun. 30, 1948. (AP Photo)

School children take gym classes in a once dangerous street in Tel Aviv, Palestine, June 28, 1948. Snipers on the tower of a mosque in Jaffa would fi...

Movie star Joan Blondell, and her husband Mike Todd watch the Joe Louis vs. Jersey Joe Walcott heavyweight boxing championship bout at the Yankee St...

Announcer Harry Balogh raises the hand of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis' hand in token of his victory over challenger Jersey Joe Walcott by a...

Playwright Moss Hart at the Stork Club in New York, June 23, 1948 with Mrs. Hart, the former Kitty Carlisle. (AP Photo)

This is the view from the grandstand of the horse race track in Tokyo, Japan, seen during the Tokyo Derby, June 12, 1948. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry)

Film stars Franchot Tone and wife Jean Wallace watch chef Louis Ploneis of New York's

This is a view of the track at Tokyo's horse race track, June 8, 1948. (AP Photo)

Judy Clark, young film actress, and Philip Reed, movie actor, at the TallyHo restaurant in Hollywood, Calif., June 1, 1948. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

Ann Miller, movie actress, and Sidney Sheldon, writer, take in the night life at Slapsy Maxie's in Hollywood, Calif., June 1, 1948. (AP Photo/Ed Widdi...

Paul Robeson throws his arms into the air May 31, 1948 as he tells the Senate Judiciary Committee May 31 that he is willing to go to jail rather than...

Standing on a veranda from left Dr. Ralph Bunche, U.S. State Department and UN assistant to Count Bernadotte; Abdel Rahman; Al Fallahi; Ahmed El Shuka...

Some of the members of the cast of

Some of the cast of

U.S. President Harry S. Truman holds a copy of the Torah, presented to him by Haim Weizman, right, in Washington, May. 25, 1948. The two leader met to...

Actor Spencer Tracy, shown in New York May 21, 1948 enrouted to England on the Queen Mary to star in the movie

George Gillette (left) chairman of the Fort Berthold Indian Tribal Business Council, covers his face as he weeps in the office of Secretary of Interio...

Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, son of exiled King Peter, visited Central Park Zoo, New York City, with governess, May 12, 1948. From all appear...

The very Rev. D.J. Shoukletovich, left, Dean of New York's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava, presents a colored easter egg to former King Peter...

The first group of refugees to reach the new state of Israel crowds a barge as it brings them into Haifa, Palestine, May 1948. (AP Photo)

Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis goes to work on a log as he starts training at Bloomingdale, Michigan, April 20, 1948 for his title match with...

Screen writer John Howard Lawson leaves Federal court in Washington after he was convicted of contempt of Congress, April 19, 1948. He was one of sco...

The British memorial to American President Franklin D. Roosevelt was unveiled by his widow Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, second right, in Grosvenor Square,...

Myron Holbert, shown with the Seeburg Selec-O-Matic

British troops of the Suffolk Regiment take up defensive positions behind a wall on a road where there has been violence between Arabs and Jews in Bet...