AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Charley Conerly, star passer of the University of Mississippi Football eleven of last season, signs contract to play with the New York Football Giants...

Home run king Babe Ruth, wearing his famed number 3 uniform, bows as he acknowledges the cheers of thousands of fans who saw the no. 3 retired permane...

Golfer Ben Hogan, left, is congratulated by movie actor Adolphe Menjou after shooting a 67, four under par, in first round of National Golf Tournamen...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh ride on June 8, 1948 from London's Guildhall to the Mansion House, after attending colorful c...

Singer Paul Robeson gestures as he tells Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington that he is willing to go to jail rather than answer a question as to...

The Belanger Motor Special (16), which was driven by Duane Carter, rests on the southwest bend on the track at the Indianapolis Speedway after he lost...

Rex Mays, driving a Bowes Sealfast Special, right, gets the jump on other racers as the 500-mile speedsters head into the first turn at the Indianapol...

Sam Hanks, of Los Angeles, is shown above in the Flavell Special that he qualified at Indianapolis on May 22, 1948, for the 500-mile Motor Speedway C...

Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the Mint, talks with Mrs. Veronica Dengel, members of the faculty of New York University and authress of ''Hold y...

Bill Holland, shown in his Blue Crown Special after he qualified for the 500-mile Indianapolis motor speedway classic on May 15, 1948 at Indianapolis....

This is the pit at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, seen May 14, 1948, as owners and drivers tried out their cars for the start of qualifying trials....

Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh (left) works out a problem on a chart with Commander W.G.F. Bird, of the British Royal Navy on May 12, 1948 at t...

Visitors at the Hell's Kitchen art galleries May 12, 1948 in New York City, view the works of Johann Pogrezba. (AP Photo)

Driver Bill Holland of Bridgeport, Conn., who finished second in 1947 Indianapolis 500-mile speedway race, smiles as he sits in the Lou Moore-owned Bl...

A group of youngsters form an unusual pattern as they scramble up the backstop screen behind home plate to recover a foul ball that stuck in the scree...

Rocky Graziano works out at the punching bag, May 6, 1948, at his Nevele Country Club Training Camp near Ellenville, for his bout with Tony Zale. (AP...

Attending a charity ball on May 5, 1948 at the Dorchester Hotel, in London, for the benefit of the King George Fund for Sailors. Britain's Royal Princ...

The Benjamin Franklin Half Dollar is the latest addition to U.S. Currency. The coin has Franklin's picture on one side and the Liberty Bell on other t...

Smiling Ted Horn of Paterson, N.J., poses with his awards after winning this second annual Arlington Downs 100-mile auto race on April 25, 1948 at Arl...

Rex Ingram,left, and Dane Clark take time out from their screen chores in

Britain's Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh walk on April 23, 1948 in a courtyard of Windsor Castle, Windsor, England. They were invested...

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, (canter, robed) leave Windsor Castle, Windsor, on April 23, 1948 in England, after being invested with...

Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, U.S. Mint Director holding up dyes April 16, 1948 which are made first and worked down to regular dollar size. (AP Photo)

High school football player Rex Boggan, 17, splashes peroxide over his hair on March 26, 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee. Anna Lee Daniel, 16, who's alread...

Four Hollywood men about town are pictured as they were booked on suspicion of murder on Aug.19,1948 in Los Angeles, following the Sunset Strip Gangla...

Dr. Reginald S. Weir of New York, first Afro-American to ever appear in a national championship sponsored by the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, prepar...

Policewomen in training, Eileen Watkins, left, Margaret Boyd, center and Ellen Whitney inspect the target after practicing with their new two inch bar...

Female trainees of the Los Angeles Police Department get used to firing their newly issued revolvers in Los Angeles, Calif., March 6, 1948. These futu...

Diana Douglas, film actress, takes a night out to celebrate the completing of her latest picture

Babe Ruth signs autographs for the children if Mending Heart Cardiac Home on Feb. 21, 1948 in Miami, Florida, after he was elected mayor of the home b...

The Capitol Building in San Juan where the Puerto Rico assembly meets, Feb. 17, 1948. (AP Photo)

Babe Ruth, former New York Yankee home run king, who is marking his 53rd birthday, greets Roger Bradford, 5, Evansville, Ind., while Robert Wilson, 5,...

Records show Feb. 6, 1948 to be Babe Ruth's 53rd birthday anniversary, although the ball player insists his anniversary on Feb. 7, 1935 in Miami Beach...

Huddled on the bed in their one-room, windowless shack called a

Bill Spiller, Los Angeles black golf professional, who was the leader in first round of Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament on January 5, 1948. He, th...

Singer Paul Robeson speaks in Milwaukee, Wisc., Dec. 30, 1947, on the same program as former Vice President Henry A. Wallace. (AP Photo)

Florida Gov. Millard Caldwell welcomes U.S. President. Harry S. Truman to Everglades City, Fla. Dec 6, 1947 for the formal dedication of the Evergla...

Some of the thousands of Jews celebrate in Tel Aviv as they listen to the broadcast on the United Nations announcement for the plan for partition with...

Happy Jewish people ride a truck through the streets of Tel Aviv after hearing radio broadcasts on the United Nations announcement of the partition o...

Happy Jewish people gather in the streets of Tel Aviv after radio broadcasts announce November 30, 1947 that the United Nations plans for the partiti...

Jewish people gather in the streets Tel Aviv many dancing after the United Nations announcement for a plan of the partition of Palestine and the new...

Jewish people wave and cheer as they gather in the streets of Tel Aviv after radio broadcasts announce November 30, 1947 that the United Nations pla...

Happy Jewish people rode on any vehicle available during their celebration in the streets of Tel Aviv after radio broadcasts announce November 30, 194...

Hugh crowds of happy Jewish people gather in streets of Tel Aviv after he United Nations announcement for a plan of the partition of Palestine and th...

This 1948 portrait of Harry S. Truman at his White House office desk. This photo was reissued in 1984 for use with stories about the 100th anniver...

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and his bride, Princess Elizabeth exchanging smiles on Nov. 23,1947 near Romsey in England. Broadlands is the estat...

Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, and his bride, Princess Elizabeth walk through the woods in Broadlands, Romsey, England, Nov. 23, 1947 during the fi...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh stroll in the gardens on Nov. 23,1947 near Romesy on their honeymoon in England.(AP...

Under the watchful eye of an American Red Cross nurse, these expectant fathers learn the

The first meeting of the Expectant Fathers' Club, a national non-profit organization, was held on November 21, 1947 at the Hotel St. George in Brookly...