AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

A bit of old Eire is the motif as Cathy Stanley, 17, of 3713 Hudson Boulevard, Union City, N.Y.holds Shillelagh after being crowned Shillelagh Queen i...

The new city commander Major General William P. Oliver, is flanked by parting British Major General C.F.C. Coleman, left, who gets a silvered china m...

Porfiro Rubirosa in a Lancia that he will race in Sunday's Grand Prix at Old Hendricks Air Force Base course on March 5, 1954 in Sebring, Florida. Ru...

Lenny Moore, center, backfield star of the U. of Penn State football team, receives a football trophy from Charles

Screen Actress Marilyn Monroe holds out her lips to receive a kiss from Joe DiMaggio as they waited in the judge's chambers for the marriage ceremony...

Before the Xavier game, Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp and his Wildcats, admire the cake presented to them on Jan. 5, 1954 in Lexington. The cake represen...

University of Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp is seen on the sidelines on Jan. 1954 in Lexington, Kentucky. (AP Photo)

Well known Italian stage and screen actor, Aldo Fabrizi, in a scene from new film called

Greek actress Irene Papas, hangs a parcel on a Christmas tree on the set of

Jim Lee Howell, left, former star end and until Dec. 14, 1953, assistant coach for the professional New York Football Giants, wears a big grin after b...

The new Lord Mayor of West-Berlin, West Germany, Dr. Walter Schreiber, reads his 19 page program to the members of the city house, December 3, 1953. (...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, left, who celebrated his 79th birthday November 30, bows graciously as he accepts best wishes from the Duke...

Carl Olson of San Francisco and Honolulu, seen Nov. 11, 1953, displays his certificate of championship from the National Boxing Association for winnin...

The coffin of the first president of Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, is raised from its temporary vault at the Ethnographical Museum of Ankara, for its transfe...

Director Henry Hathaway, center, checks the iron mask of actor Robert Wagner's knight costume, while actor Sterling Hayden stands by, Nov. 6, 1953 in...

Rudolf Roessler, left, the Soviet Union's master spy of World War II, and his Swiss contact man, Dr. Xavier Schnieper, are followed by a guard, not sh...

Some stars came, Oct. 31, 1953, at Etoile Theater, Paris to congratulate French singer Yves Montand who has an engagement there. Photo shows from righ...

The new Lord Mayor of West-Berlin, West Germany, Dr. Walter Schreiber, set up by the Christian Democrats (CDU), gets a light for his cigar by his poli...

Portrait of smiling Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian head of state and leader of the Christian Social Union, pictured in Bonn, West Germany, September 27...

Actress Elizabeth Taylor stands on the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 25, 1953. Last night in Copenhage, Denmark, she became s...

Bearded American movie star Kirk Douglas and Italian film favorite Anna Maria Ferrero enjoy a dance at the party given by Countess Natalia Volpe on Se...

Fazollah Zahedi, left, new premier of Persia, chats with William Warne, USA poiint four chief in Persia, about USA aid for Persia. The talks were held...

A bearded Kirk Douglas chats with actress Silvana Mangano before the showing of

Gen. Fazollah Zahedi, Irans new Prime Minister under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, announced Aug. 25 that his government would continue negotiations wit...

General Fazollah Zahedi, new, pro-Shah, Premier of Persia, seated on Aug. 19, 1953 in Tehran officers club a few hours after successfully leading the...

Tazio Nuvolari lying in state in his home on Aug. 12, 1953 in Mantova, Italy. He wears the attire he used running his famous auto races. The cham...

The neon lights burn all night on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nev., on Aug. 7, 1953. Gambling in the town is limited to an area of four square blocks...

Britain's Prince Philip jumps off ground to field ball during cricket match at Arundel Castle Sussex, England on Aug. 4 1957. The ball has it go...

The Duke of Edinburgh center, Queen Elizabeth's consort, goes into action as a bowler (pitcher) during a cricket match on Aug. 6, 1953 at Arundel Cas...

Guiseppe Farina (Italy), who won the Grand Prix of Germany for Formula two racing cars August 2, 1953 drives his Ferrari on the South Bend of the Nuer...

Kirk Douglas lifts a sheep used in one of the scenes for

Kirk Douglas stars in

Umberto Silvestri, left, in his part as Polyphemos, seems to be getting the worst of it from Kirk Douglas in the part of

Twenty motor scooters are lined up in a courtyard of the Apostolic Palace on July 3, 1953 in Vatican City after being blessed by Pop Plis XII, at cent...

Queen Elizabeth II, dressed in the magnificent robe of cloth of gold, receives the sceptre with cross, the ensign of kingly power and justice, from th...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, second left, talks with her horse trainer Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, left, in the unsaddling enclosure at Ascot race course, J...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, fourth from right, in the Royal Box, watches the racing at Royal Ascot, June 16, 1953. Princess Margaret stands to the Q...

Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister, at far left, stands on the steps of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, England, June 14, 1953. Churchill was insta...

An unidentified man demonstrates wiping a tennis racquet with a dry towel after a humid day June 9, 1953. (AP Photo)

An unidentified man demonstrates wiping a tennis racquet with a dry towel after a humid day June 9, 1953. (AP Photo)

An unidentified man demonstrates sprinkling talcum powder on a tennis racquet June 9, 1953. Talcum powder is a good drying agent. (AP Photo) court...

An unidentified man demonstrates sprinkling talcum powder on a tennis racquet June 9, 1953. Talcum powder is a good drying agent. (AP Photo) court...

An unidentified man demonstrates putting on a tennis racquet cover then apply the press June 9, 1953. (AP Photo)

An unidentified man demonstrates putting on a tennis racquet cover then apply the press June 9, 1953. (AP Photo)

An unidentified man demonstrates shellacing the strings of a tennis racquet Shellac protects the gut against grit and dust that the ball might pick...

An unidentified man demonstrates shellacing the strings of a tennis racquet Shellac protects the gut against grit and dust that the ball might pick...

A battalion of British Coldstream Guards march under Admiralty Arch and into Whitehall, London, June 2, 1953, in the processional drive to Westminster...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, hidden by clergy and Peers, on the Throne of England after her Coronation in Westminster Abbey, June 2, 1953. In f...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, wave to supporters from the balcony at Buckingham Palace, following her coronation...

David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, and his wife, Adelle, Countess Beatty, try on coronation regalia at Hardy Amies fashion house on Savile Row, London, Ju...