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Professor and vice director Edwin Redslob, of the

Students study the announcements at the blackboard of the economics department in a corridor of the University, November 1948. Students and lecturers...

Professor Huebner, of the

Professor and vice director Edwin Redslob, of the

Professor and vice director Edwin Redslob, of the

Students study the announcements at the blackboard in a corridor of the University, November 15, 1948. Students and lecturers refurbrished the rooms o...

Image shows the building of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute () which will house the biology department of the

Image shows the crowded office of the students council's office at the university November 2, 1948. Students and lecturers refurbish the rooms of the

Two students in their coats are pictured sorting piles of donated books in an unheated room November 2, 1948. Students and lecturers refurbish the roo...

Students study the announcements at the blackboard in a corridor of the University, November 2, 1948. Students and lecturers refurbish the rooms of th...

Students in their coats are pictured bringing chairs and tables to a room of the university November 2, 1948. Students and lecturers refurbish the roo...

A Student sortss history books in a shelf of the University, November 1948. Students and lecturers refurbished the rooms of the

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Students of the

Students of the

Photo shows Carl Braun (4) left forward of the N.Y knickerbockers basketball team in the BAA shown Dec. 22, 1948. (AP Photo)

Photo shows Carl Braun (4) left forward of the N.Y knickerbockers basketball team in the BAA shown Dec. 22, 1948. (AP Photo)

Relief pitcher Gene Bearden is half-carried and half dragged off the infield at Braves Field, Oct. 11, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, by happy, shouti...

Winning pitcher Gene Bearden, center, of Cleveland receives congratulation of his teammates as he leaves field after giving Indians' a 2-1 lead in Wor...

Mrs. Claire Ruth (center), widow of the mighty slugger, accompanied by the Babe's adopted daughter, Mrs. Julia Ruth Flanders and Mr. Richard Flanders...

Crowds line the streets and watch as the casket containing the body of Babe Ruth is taken from the hearse to be carried into St. Patrick's Cathedral o...

The casket containing the body of Babe Ruth, who died in New York's Memorial Hospital on August 16, 1948 of cancer of the throat, is carried from fune...

A segment of the hustling and bustling crowd along Lexington Avenue on August 17, 1948, becomes stilled as spectators pay their respects while Babe Ru...

The Boston Braves are shown as they lined up in front of their dugout tonight on August 16, 1948, at Braves Field, prior to their game with the Brookl...

Sweden's John Ljunggren wins the 50 kilometre Olympic Games Walk at Wembley Stadium, London, July 31, 1948. (AP Photo)

Olympic athletes mass in the infield of Wembley Stadium in London, July 29, 1948, for the opening day ceremonies of the 1948 Olympiad. Members of the...

Premier Thakin Nu (above) of Burma was quoted in press dispatches from Rangoon as reiterating that all leftist forces in Burma, including ?True? commu...

Babe Ruth, the

Babe Ruth, left,

Soft coal miners, their lamps glowing on their caps, enter the Haveco Mine near Welsh, West Virginia, on April 22, 1948, as they join the back-to-work...

An explosive charge set by British Army Sappers in a 90 year-old windmill overlooking the Montefiore section of Jerusalem, on April 15, 1948, blasts t...

Joe Louis (left), World's Heavyweight Boxing champion, shakes hands with a smiling Jersey Joe Walcott after they signed for a return bout, on April 14...

Two Haganah Soldiers stand as Guard of Honor beside the blanket covered body of a comrade killed when Arabs Attacked Jewish settlement of Neve Yacoub...

Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisc., poses in a Capitol corridor with a copy of a report after a joint Senate-House committee approved a public housing prog...

From left to right: Louis Suggs, Sam Byrd, Babe Ruth, Al Besselink and Babe Zaharias, compete in a benefit golf tournament for the Cancer Fund, Feb. 2...

Pres. Luis Batlle Berres of Uraguay, left, and Pres. Juan Peron of Argentina embrace on Feb. 27, 1948, after a conference on Argentine presidential ya...

Andrea Mead, 15, of Rutland, Vt., speeds past flag markers during competition in the Olympic women's slalom event at St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Feb....

Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisc., right, at a seated session of the joint Congressional Committee on Housing with Isadore Ginsberg of New York as a Witne...

Babe Ruth waves as he arrives at his home at 110 Riverside Drive in New York, Jan. 27, 1948, from the Neurological Institute of the Columbia Presbyte...

Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisc., right, and Rep. Ralph Gamble, R-NY, vice chairman and chairman respectively, as seated at the session of the joint Cong...

William Levitt, of Manhasset, N.Y., testifies before a joint Congressional Housing Committee, Jan. 15, 1948, Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges...

View of the Jardines De Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Jan. 10, 1948. (AP Photo)

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Warner Bros. stars, study letter on Jan. 8, 1948 from American gold hunter they staked while on location in Mexico...

Prime Minister Thakin Nu, (left), takes oath of office from Burmese President Sao Shwe Thaik, at Rangoon, Burma, on Jan. 4, 1948, when the New Indepen...

Sir Hubert Rance, (right), departing British Governor of Burma, is bid farewell by Thakin Nu, Prime Minister of the New Independent Republic of Burma,...

Babe Ruth, right, receives a National Civic Service award of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, from Matthew L. Brown of Springfield, Ohio. Presentation,...

U Saw, prewar premier of Burma, walks from his cell in the Insein Jail on Nov. 1, 1947 reputedly the third largest jail in the world and the ??stoughe...

Babe Ruth, second from left, receives the Brith Sholom 1947 National Sports Award from Stony McLinn, sports commentator, for Ruth's

Columbia's brilliant end Bill Swiacki reaches out to make a diving catch of a 25-yard pass from Gene Rossides on the Army 4-yard line late in the four...

Former Burmese Premier U Saw, leader of the Myochit (lovers of freedom) party, smiles cheerfully from the dock at the opening of his trial on Oct. 8,...