AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

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

Britain's KIng George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth drive down the race course at Royal Ascot, England, June 15, 1937, on the opening day of the mee...

Robert Sweeny swings during his semi-final match with C. Stone whom he beat on June 9, 1937. (AP Photo)

Wilbur Shaw is shown as he crosses the finish line at the Indianapolis 500 Memorial Day classic, May 31, 1937. (AP Photo)

Wilbur Shaw shown as he raced cross the finish line here on May, 31, 1937, to capture his first title in the Indianapolis 500- mile auto classic in In...

Wilbur Shaw, grimy and weary, is shown as his car was escorted from the track to the garage after finishing as winner of the 500-mile Memorial Day rac...

Robert Sweeny has reached the final of the English Ameteur Championships at the Royal St. George's course, Sandwich, May 28, 1937. (AP Photo)

$23 ticket entitles the holder to a Ringside seat for a fight that probably never will be held on the date it is scheduled. The

Despite their ragged appearance, victorious loyalist troops advance slowly along a highway littered with war debris, somewhere outside of Madrid, Apri...

Young men at Camp Sanders in Mount Herndon, Louisiana, wait their turn in line for food, March 26, 1937. The boys take turns on the cooking staff at...

An instructor shows a young man how to administer first aid at Camp Sanders in Mount Herndon, La., as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps, March 2...

Three hundred fascist insurgents were killed in this explosion in Madrid under the five-story Casa Blanca building, March 19, 1938. Government loyali...

A woman, wounded and homeless after a fascist air raid in Valencia, weeps on the shoulder of an older woman, March 9, 1937. (AP Photo)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown as he arrived to participate in wreath-laying ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial to honor Pres. Abraham Linco...

Chain-gang prisoners from the Shelby County penal farm toil on a levee in South Memphis, Tenn., as the city prepares to meet he crest of the Mississip...

Loyalist troops shoot from a barricade erected across a mountain road on the Huesca front, Jan. 7, 1937. (AP Photo)

Men to be enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps throughout the Nation by Jan. 20, Army recruiting offices here on Jan 5,1937 in New York, began...

Members of a fascist infantry unit hide behind a low stone wall in Huesca as they advance along a mountain roadway during fighting along the northern...

Always a favorite among children, Babe Ruth, the former king of swat, found a lot of youngsters who took him for portly Santa when he attended the Chr...

An elderly woman and little girl rest on blankets from their ruined homes as they await transfer from Madrid to another city, Dec. 14, 1936. Behind t...

Scores of families are seen taking refuge underground on a Madrid subway platform, Dec. 9, 1936, as bombs are dropped by Junta aircraft overhead. Not...

Conn Smythe, manager of the Toronto Maple leafs, is shown leaving the Leafs' dressing room in 1937 at the start of the National Hockey league tilt wit...

Babe Ruth, the once mighty sultan of swat, springs to life as a heavyweight torch singer in his newest movie short,

Beattie Feathers (48) of the Chicago Bears off on end run that resulted in no gain in game against New York Giants at Polo Grounds on Nov. 8,1936 in N...

President Franklin Roosevelt with his grandchildren during the president's leisure time on Oct 22, 1936 at Hyde Park, New York. Roosevelt is re...

A 10-year-old boy searches frantically for his parents after a recent fascist aerial attack over Serro Muliano, near Cordova, Oct. 21, 1936. (AP Phot...

Children pause to look back at the havoc being wrought upon their town of Serro Muliano, near Cordova, as fascist bombers rain destruction from above,...

Tazio Nuvolari of Italy receives the George Vanderbilt International Automobile Challenge Cup from Vanderbilt, left, after winning the 300-mile car ra...

Loyalist militiamen seated in armchairs dragged from nearby buildings are seen as they continue their siege of the Alcazar fortress in Toledo, Sept. 2...

This famed old Cathedral St. Louis in New Orleans faces Jackson Square or Place d' Arme, the parade grounds where Gen. Andrew Jackson celebrated his...

Jesse Owens, Olympic star, gets ready to do his first turn as a professional by showing his toes, instead of his heels, to the field on September 1,...

Captured by fascists in the fierce fighting over Irun, this little band of loyalist prisoners are marched off to doom, arms bound together, Aug. 31, 1...

America won the men's Olympic Games 4 x 100 metres relay, in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 9, 1936, in a new World record time of 39.8 seconds. The team from...

Britain's Arthur Godfrey Brown, running the last lap for Great Britain, breaks the tape to win the men's Olympic games 4 x 400-metre Relay Final, in t...

Artist James Thurber shown in Aug. 8, 1936 in New York City. (AP Photo)

American swimmer Peter Fick competing in the first heat of the men's Olympic Games 100-metres Freestyle race, in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 8, 1936. Fick s...

American athlete Forrest Towns, right, wins the semi-final of the men's Olympic Games 110-metres race, in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 6, 1936. Sweden's Haka...

John Lovelock of New Zealand, all in black, right, wins the Final of the men's 1,500 metres Olympic Games race in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 6, 1936. Glen...

Athletes complete the first lap of the Final of the men's 1,500 metres Olympic Games race in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 6, 1936. The winner was John Lovelo...

Britain's Hector Harold Whitlock enters the Olympic Stadium as wins the men's Olympic Games 50,000 metres walking race, in Berlin, germany, Aug. 5, 1...

American athlete Jesse Owens, left, breaks the tape in a record time of 21.1 seconds in the elimination heats of the men's 200 metres Olympic Games ra...

The start of the first elimination race in the men's Olympic 100 metres race, in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 3, 1936. Canada's Howie McPhee, right, won the...

Finland's Ilmaria Salminen, runner second from left, overtakes his fellow countryman Arvo Askola, third from left to win the Men's Olympic Games 10,00...

Crowded Olympic Stadium in Berlin , Germany, Aug. 2, 1936, await the start of the track events in the XI Olympic Games. (AP Photo)

The team of athletes from Denmark parade around the Olympic Stadium, in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 1, 1936, during the opening ceremony of the XI Olympic G...

Some members of crowd give the Nazi salute as the team from Great Britain enters the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Aug. 1, 1936, during the opening ceremon...

The team of athletes from Italy, salute and parade around the Olympic Stadium, in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 1, 1936, during the opening ceremony of the XI...

The American team of athletes parade around the Olympic Stadium, in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 1, 1936, during the opening ceremony of the XI Olympic Games...

The lighting of the Olympic fire in Lustgarten, Berlin on Aug. 1, 1936, where it will be guarded by members of the Hitler Youth until it is brought to...

The Olympic Torch arrived in the Lustgarten, Berlin, Aug. 1, 1936, and the Olympic fire was lit, centre bckground, where it will be guarded by members...