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A general view of the main business street is shown in Charlotte, Mich. on July 21, 1939. (AP Photo)

The famed French Foreign Legion, brought especially from Sidi Belarbees to Paris for the occcasion, marched in the July 14 Parade. July 14, 1939 phot...

Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber, just after he floored Tony Galento with a right to the jaw in the 2nd round of their bout at Yankee Stadium in New York J...

Actress Beatrice Straight and investor John Hay Whitney are seen at the opening of the new home of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, May 10, 1939....

Dave Garroway of television and radio fame,was swarmed by autograph seekers and well wishers May 10, 1939 as he waited for the start of the National...

With Referee George Blake tolling the count over him, Jack Roper is shown as he vainly tried to claw his way to his feet after he was knocked out by c...

With Referee George Blake, at right, signaling the end of the count for boxer Jack Roper on the canvas, after he was knocked out by champion Joe Louis...

Movie actor Robert Montogomery, left, testified before a Senate group in Washington April 3, 1939 on a proposal to elimate block motion picture book...

Joe Carr, left, President of the National Football League, and Earl

Boris Karoff, star of Monogram's

New York Times sports writer John Kieran, Jan. 28, 1939. (AP Photo)

Actress Carole Lombard shown Jan. 17, 1939 (AP Photo)

Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis relaxes listening to music at his training camp at Pompton Lakes, N.J., January 12, 1939. Louis will be mee...

This is a general view of Tunis, capital city of Tunisia, seen Dec. 16, 1938. (AP Photo)

The grande mosque at Kairouan, Tunisia, is seen, Dec. 16, 1938. It is regarded as the fourth holiest city in Islam after Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem...

George W. Rogers, radio room hero of the Morro Castle disaster, claps his wife's hand while a policeman lead him out of a courtroom in Jersey City, N....

The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is seen, Dec. 12, 1938. At left, the ruins of an Arab cafe which was believed to be harboring insurgents, can...

Maj. Robert Neyland, coach of the University of Tennessee, sits on a bench on the sidelines, Dec. 2, 1938. (AP Photo)

This is a view of New York City facing west, with New Jersey in the background, as seen from the observation deck of the Empire State Building, 1939....

George W. Rogers, right, who was the radio hero of the Morro Castle disaster, is shown in a courthouse as he went on trial, accused of attempting to k...

Maj. Bob Neyland, coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers, scouted Ole Miss at Memphis, Tenn., when the Rebels defeated Arkansas, 20-14, Nov....

Maj. Bob Neyland, coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers, scouted Ole Miss at Memphis, Tenn., when the Rebels defeated Arkansas, 20-14, Nov....

This is a view of the Manhattan borough of New York, looking northwest, as seen from the observation deck of the Empire State Building, Sept. 29, 1938...

Famed conducter Arturo Toscanini leads orchestra in concert at Triebschen Park near the house where composer Richard Wagner made his home on Sept. 2,...

The man made canyons of Broadway rocked with the thunder of acclaim as ticker tape and paper showered down on aviator Douglas

The flattened, nearly shapeless body of 26-year-old John Ward is seen an instant after his 17-story plunge to death from a ledge of The Gotham hotel o...

Japanese troops in interior China slopping their way along over flood soaked areas in drive for Hankow and Yangtse points, July 1938. (AP Photo)

Child star Shirley Temple, poses with J. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief, during a tour of Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Washington, June 24...

Promoter Mike Jacobs, the Madison Square Garden matchmaker, who arranged the heavyweight title bout between boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling in New...

Thousands jam the streets of New York's Chinatown to take part in the

FILE --- The Cutty Sark, a 19th century clipper, sits in dry dock at Falmouth, England, in this June 15, 1938 photo prior to leaving for the River Tha...

** FILE ** The Cutty Sark, a 19th century clipper, sits in dry dock at Falmouth, England, in this June 15, 1938 photo prior to leaving for the River T...

A group on horseback travel up a path at the Grand Canyon in Arizonia June 8, 1938. (AP Photo)

Albert Einstein, of Princeton University, Rabbi Stephen Wise and Thomas Mann, exiled German author, are shown as they attended the first showing of th...

President Roosevelt waves as he arrives in Charleston, SC, May 9, 1938, following his fishing trip on southern waters abroad the USS Philadlphia. Fla...

Preliminary announcements of the Centenary celebration at Mount Holyoke College, May 7, 1938. (AP Photo)

World heavyweight champ Joe Louis, center, sits in his dressing room in Chicago with his trainer Jack Blackburn, left, and at right is co-manager Jul...

Dance teacher Authur Murray and Ann Pennington dance the Charleston in this photo dated March 9, 1938. (AP Photo)

F.D. White, left, and publisher Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., are seen at the American Newspaper Publishers Association meeting, Feb. 28, 1938. (AP Photo)

Lewis E. Lawes, second from right, Warden of the prison in Ossining, NY, otherwise known as

A guard of the Cook Country Jail, Jan. 26, 1938, sits in the corridor outside the cell door housing John Henry Seadlund, accused of abducting Charles...

Rosita Forbes, author and explorer, seen here with Sir Herbert Cayser, photograher, before she left Victoria Jan. 19, 1938 for India for tiger hunting...

Professor Eugene Steinach studies why men grow old and devises means of arresting the aging process in his laboratories in Vienna, Austria on Jan. 5,...

This is the business district of Louisville, Ky., looking north toward the Ohio River, Jan. 4, 1938. (AP Photo)

An aerial view is shown of the Rose Bowl during the game between California and Alabama, in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 2, 1938 . (AP Photo)

Radio announcer Graham McNamee, left, is shown leaving homicide court in New York on Dec. 9, 1937 after continuation until Dec. 28 of a hearing on cha...

George Bernard Shaw, December 1937. (AP Photo)

Golfer John Montague is embraced by actor Guy Kibbee on his return to Los Angeles after his acquittal on robbery charges in New York, Nov. 24, 1937....

Golfer John Montague is greeted by socially prominent widow Esther Plunkett on his return to Los Angeles after his acquittal in New York on a robbery...

Golfer John Montague is seen during a charity golf tournament in at the Fresh Meadows Club, in the Queens borough of N.Y., Nov. 14, 1937. (AP Photo)