AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Singer Paul Robeson stands outside a taxi cab and faces a crowd of newsmen and other onlookers gathered outside his apartment building in New York, Ju...

Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh waves as Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose smile their acknowledgment of cheers which they greet as t...

Ernst Reuter, mayor of Berlin, and Major General G.K. Bourns walk on the grass of the playing field towards the center of the Olypic Stadium here in B...

The Blue Baron Special, with Bill Holland at the wheel, flashes past the finish line to win the 33rd annual 500-mile Memorial Day race at the Indianap...

Erich von Stroheim, noted actor and movie director, left, gets his head shaved, June 1949, for his part in Sunset Boulevard

Bill Holland, winner of the 500-mile Indianapolis speed classic from Reading, Pa., receives a silver cup filled with water after the race on May 30, 1...

Driver Bill Holland sits in the Blue Crown Special after winning the Indianapolis 500-mile race on May 30, 1949 at Indianapolis Speedway. All others...

The infield of the Indianapolis Speedway was jammed this morning with thousands of autos of spectators who arrived early to view the 500-mile race, Ma...

Bill Holland, winner of Indianapolis 500-mile race, gets a big kiss from screen actress Linda Darnell in front of the Borg Warner trophy on May 30, 1...

Singer Paul Robeson sings at the Prague Music Festival at the Rudolfinum Auditorium, May 26, 1949. (AP Photo/Czech News Agency)

Driver Lee Wallard, Schenectady, N.Y. is shown in the Maserati that he qualified on May 25, 1949 for the Indianapolis 500-mile race at the Speedway at...

Harpo Marx was guest of honor at a party at the Hampshire house on May 20, 1949 in New York. Some of the other guests were all stressed up, but Harpo...

Driver Johnny Parsons of Van Nuys, Calif., poses in the Kurtis-Kraft special, in which he qualified, May 15, in Indianapolis, Ind., for the Memorial D...

Berliners perch on ruins to hear anticommunist speakers at blockade lifting rally in front of West Berlin City Hall May 12, 1949. (AP Photo/Von Nolde/...

Germans, numbering an simmered 150,000 assembled before Schoenberg City Hall on May 12, 1949 in West Berlin government centre. They heard speeches fro...

Heavy-footed Rex Mays (left), veteran racing driver from Los Angeles, talks with owner Lou Welch on May 12,1949 of Novi, Michigan after a test run in...

View from the top of City Hall Schoenberg with British union Jack (one with American) in foreground shows great throng assembled on May 12, 1949 in fr...

The U.S. Military Train, packet with German and U.S. American reporters is pictured at the main railway station in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, be...

Actor Kirk Douglas, dances with Marilyn Maxwell at the Stork Club in New York City May 7, 1949. (AP Photo)

Actor Kirk Douglas, center left, shown with Marilyn Maxwell, center right, on May 7, 1949 at the Stork Club in New York City. (AP Photo)

Actor Kirk Douglas, dances with Marilyn Maxwell at the Stork Club in New York City May 7, 1949. (AP Photo)

The Duke of Edinburgh leads the procession of dignitaries shown on April 28, 1949 at the University of Wales, Bangor, England, following his installa...

Singer Paul Robeson makes a concert appearance in Copenhagen, Denmark, in which 6,000 people attended, April 27, 1949. (AP Photo/Joergen Nielsen)

Singer Paul Robeson carries a bouquet of roses at left, after being greeted by Danish communist leader Aksel Larsen, center, and an unidentified repor...

Within one year, Alicia Alonso has become Cuba's favorite Ballet dancer. Twelve months ago, Alicia was living in New York and out of a job. She organi...

Singer Paul Robeson signs autographs in the lobby of the Hotel Cosmopolite in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 26, 1949. (AP Photo)

Singer Paul Robeson, right, and French poet Louis Aragon are shown at the Congress of Partisans of Peace at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, April 20, 1949....

Singer Paul Robeson, right, and French poet Louis Aragon are shown at the Congress of Partisans of Peace at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, April 20, 1949....

Singer Paul Robeson confers with accompanist Helen Thierry before singing in Spanish, Russian and English to the delegates of the Congress of Partisan...

A Jewish Immigrant from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, operates this small store on the main square in Yehudia Village near Lydda in Israel a former Arab Villa...

Actors Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson and Frank Sinatra gather backstage at Friars' Frolic, all male show for Motion Picture Relief Fund, given in Shine A...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, carrying a bouquet of flowers, arrives with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh on April 6, 1949 at the Dorchester Hotel...

Victor Kravchenko, left, leaves court alongside his lawyer, Georges Izard, after being awarded damages in the trial for the lawsuit brought by him aga...

Robert J. Sweeny, Jr., former British Ameteur Golf Champion, and his bride, the former Joanne Marie Connellet, New York debutante, leave St. Edward Ca...

Movie Actor Robert Mitchum holds out his hands and takes a deep breath of free air on Mar. 30, 1949 outside the Los Angeles Hall of Justice after his...

Pickets carrying sing and flags march in front of Madison Square Garden, New York, March 27, 1949, as delegates and spectators attend the closing ses...

Actor Louis Jourdan (left) presents Oscar to French Consul Alexandre de Manziarly on March 25, 1949 for

The mayor of West Berlin, Ferdinand Friedensburg, left, stands with representatives of the local industry next to the new trade mark of articles prod...

The mayor of West Berlin, Ferdinand Friedensburg, center, stands with representatives of the local industry next to a poster stuck to the walls of a...

A German worker screen prints wooden transport boxes with the trade mark of articles produced in West Berlin

Gambler Mickey Cohen pushes open his jail call door as he was released on March 22,1949, on $100,000 bail following a less-than-24-hour stay in the Lo...

Gambler Mickey Cohen is booked on March 22, 1949 on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder by Deputy Shierff Ken White. He was arrested after charge...

Workers prepare the hole for trees to be planted in a reforestation as first measures in reconstructing the park

Bob Cousy, Holy Cross forward, second from right, intercepts pass intended for Tony Lavelli, (8) of Yale, left, in first period of game Feb. 19, 1949...

The pilot of a British

Film hero Robert Mitchum, who's doing 60 days for his part in a Hollywood marijuana smoking party, squirts a stream of milk at photographers as he beg...

Announcer Johnny Addie, left, holds up Willie Pep's hand as he announces that Pep had defeated Sandy Saddler, Harlem title holder, to regain the feath...

Willie Pep, left, unleashes a two fisted attack against feather weight champion Sandy Saddler in the fourth round of their 15-Round title bout on Feb....

Actor Robert Mitchum and actress Lila Leeds in light suit, are escorted to jail, on Feb. 9, 1949 in Los Angeles, Calif. by deputy Sheriff Majorie Kell...

Victor Kravchenko, left, points an accusing finger at his former wife, Zinaida Gorlova, during the trial for the lawsuit brought by him against Les Le...