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Composer Pinky Tomlin stands by statue of Stephen Foster in Highland Park , Pittsburgh on July 18, 1938. Tomli wrote hit song,

Max Schmeling literally danced down an airliner's gangplank at Newark Airport on the eve before his title fight, June 22, 1938. Manager Joe Jacobs is...

James Cagney poses for camera on June 15, 1938. (AP Photo)

Joe Louis looks with envy on two awards that belong to Henry Armstrong, left, shown during their meeting at Pompton Lakes, N.J., June 13, 1938. One b...

Helen Taft, widow of William Howard Taft is shown in her stateroom on June 11, 1938, aboard the ocean liner Rex as she sailed from New York. to spend...

They're rehearsing

Ready to Roll, this WPA Federal Theater Caravan is to tour New York and environs this summer, cringing a dramatization of Robert Louis Stevenson's

Frances Farmer, stage and screen star, as she appeared on June 6,1938 in court in New York. (AP Photo)

Dr. William Walker, Representing the Commission on May 31, 1938 in New York , looks into Armstrong's eyes, while Barney Ross looks on. Armstrong Weig...

Floyd Roberts waves from the cockpit of his racer at the Indianapolis Speedway, May 30, 1938, just after he won the annual Memorial Day 500-mile race....

The field of racers rounds the first turn at the Indianapolis Speedway on Memorial Day, May 30, 1938, to start the 500-mile annual classic. Leading i...

Driver Floyd Roberts of Van Nuys, Calif, flashes past finish line to win the Indianapolis 500-mile race on May, 30, 1938 at the Indianapolis speedway...

Driver Floyd Roberts waves from the cockpit of his racer on May, 30, 1938 at Indianapolis speedway in Indianapolis. Just after he won the annual In...

Barney Ross poses in a fighting pose on May 21, 1938. (AP Photo)

Thousands of people crowd the

Robert Lane (above), 21-years-old Salem, Ore., youth who San Francisco police say admitted 110 safe cracking jobs in California was taken to several s...

Mrs.Helen Wills Modddy cut this lively caper in a workout at New York, April 18,1938 as she wound up the American part of her preparation for another...

Veteran of seven Alaskan expeditions, Bradford Washburn (center) of Harvard?s Institute of Geographical Exploration, is shown April 15, 1938 in Bosto...

Lynwood T.

The doomed Spanish insurgent cruiser Baleares was sinking fast, as seen from nearby H.M.S. Kempenfelt, March 5, 1938, as seamen slide down ropes while...

Robert Moses

It takes a man to be

Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrives at 10 Downing Street, London, Feb. 19, 1938. (AP Photo)

Austrian politician Dr. Anton Rintelen, is greeted by his daughter after his release from prison hospital in Vienna, Austria, Feb. 17, 1938. Rintelen...

This is the new Associated Press Wirephoto receiving unit, seen Feb. 9, 1938. (AP Photo)

Robert Sweeny, American born English Open Golf Champion, is shown with Mrs. Cochrane Atwell of New York, on Jan. 29, 1938 at the Colony Club in Palm B...

Col. E.M. House, intimate adviser on foreign affairs to Pres. Woodrow Wilson, leaves the New York City home of President-elect Franklin Roosevelt afte...

Singer Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda are shown in New York, 1938. (AP Photo)

Arms and ammunition are distributed to loyalist forces from a char-a-banc, or sightseeing bus, at the barricade frontiers of Barcelona, during a long...

Fanny Brice, shown dressed for a movie part on Nov. 14, 1937 in Hollywood, California Brice said she

New York Giants halfback Tuffy Leemans (4) runs into some Chicago Bear tacklers as he returns a punt for 15 yards in game before 50,000 at the Polo Gr...

Ward Huff, New York Giants halfback, gets off a 42-yard goal against the Chicago Bears on Oct. 31, 1937 in New York at Polo Grounds. Bears and Giants...

New York Giants halfback Tuffy Leemans breaks way for a four yard gain against the Brooklyn Dodgers in game at the Polo Grounds on Oct. 24, 1937 in Ne...

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt gives his charming partner, Miss Eleanor Young, a light as they are snapped by the camera at the opening of the Sert Room of...

Mrs.Helen Wills Modddy former international Tennis champion is shown as she polished her game on Sept.15,1937 in Los Angeles for her first tournament...

A bloodied child cries in the ruins of Shanghai's South Railway Station in China after a Japanese bombing on Aug. 28, 1937 during the Sino-Japanese Wa...

General Baqir Sidqi, fourth from left, and Major Muhammad Ali Jawad, second from right, are shown at Baghdad railway station, Aug. 10, 1937. (AP Photo...

This is how the cylinder holding an undeveloped negative is set on or removed from the new wirephoto receiving apparatus,seen Aug. 5, 1937 in New York...

This is the new wirephoto receiver from the Associated Press, seen Aug. 5, 1935. (AP Photo)

This is the Associate Press's new wirephoto receiver, seen Aug. 4, 1937, in New York. (AP Photo)

Germany's Baron Gottfried Von Cramm in action during the Davis Cup match against Donald Budge of America, unseen, at Wimbledon, London, July 20, 1937....

Donald Budge of America in action during the Davis Cup match against Germany's Baron Gottfried Von Cramm, unseen, at Wimbledon, London, July 20, 1937....

Donald Budge of America in action during the Davis Cup match against Germany's Baron Gottfried Von Cramm, unseen, at Wimbledon, London, July 20, 1937....

American Donald Budge, left, and Germany's Baron Gottfried Von Cramm before the start of the Final of Wimbledon Men's Singles Match, Wimbledon, Londo...

American Donald Budge in action against Germany's Baron Gottfried Von Cramm, unseen, in the Final of Wimbledon Men's Singles Match, Wimbledon, London...

American Donald Budge in action against Norman-Gordon Farquharson of South Africa, unseen, in the first round Wimbledon Men's Singles Match, Wimbledon...

Mary Heaton Vorse, a magazine writer, seen June 20, 1937, suffered a head injury in last night's fatal rioting at the Republic Steel Plant in Youngsto...

Racegoers arrive for the start of the race meeting at Royal Ascot, England, June 7, 1937. (AP Photo/Staff/Putnam)

Britain's KIng George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth drive down the race course at Royal Ascot, England, June 16, 1937, on the opening day of the mee...

Racegoers arrive for the start of the race meeting at Royal Ascot, England, June 15, 1937. (AP Photo/Staff/Illingworth)