AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Stan Musial practices batting during a drill at Cardinals training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., March 4, 1955. (AP Photo)

Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer is shown at a dress rehearsal of Puccini's

Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, right, receives recommendations for a 101-billion-dollar Federal State highway program from retired Gen. Lucius Clay, Jan. 11...

Mrs. Mannie Doss, 49-years-old grandmother, smiles at her court-appointed attorney on Dec. 15, 1954 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gordon Patten, before her prel...

Grandmother Nannie Doss, 49, chats gaily with homicide Capt. Harry Stege before her arrangement on a charge of murdering Samuel Doss, 58, Tulsa, the f...

For the first time in modern times, the United States Supreme Court board a train on Nov. 27, 1954 in Washington for the army navy football game in Ph...

Mrs. John Stamy Jr., checks on dinner cooking in the oven of the electric stove in the kitchen of the Stamy farm, Oct. 10, 1954 near Newville, Pa. Mrs...

A meeting at Trung Gia, 25 miles north of Hanoi, shows the head of the Vietminh delegation, Gen. Van Tien Dung, seated at left, relaxing in a staff hu...

Walter O'Malley, right, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Chuck Dressen, former pilot of the Brooklyn club, leave the Formers office in Brooklyn,...

Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes a well-remembered catch in the first game of the 1954 World Series in New York's Polo Grounds on Sept. 2...

This was the scene on one of the runways at La Guardia field as fringe of Hurricane Edna hit the city, Sept. 11, 1954, New York. There was no flood da...

This tweed afternoon dress in gray and white has a string tie belt of cocoa suede which disappears under the pocket flaps. Turtle neck and bloused bac...

This is a view of the presidential mountain retreat of Camp David, near Thurmont, Md., in the Catoctin Mountains, seen Aug. 14, 1954, where Pres. and...

These children are among thousands of refugees from a town in Vietnam evacuated by French Union troops, crowd Hanoi in Indo-China, Aug 5, 1954. Under...

A Vietnamese refugee from the area of Indo China evacuated by French troops, squats on the curb of a Hanoi street to bathe her small baby in a basin o...

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This was the scene at the last meeting of Trung Gia military conference, July 27, 1954 in Hanoi, Indochina. Vietminh delegates applaud after hearing s...

A small basin is used to bathe this baby, one of the thousands of refugees who recently fled to the port city of Haiphong after the French evacuation...

General Van Tien Dung, at the far end of the table, makes his opening speech during the open meeting between the French Union and Vietminh officers to...

A French nurse, left, inside plane, and two French pilots, one lifting child into the plane, lower right, assist women and children aboard an AC-47 tr...

President Dwight Eisenhower hands to Lt. Gen. L.T. Gerow, former Fifth Corps commander, a torch to be lighted in France at ceremonies on June 5, 1954,...

U.S. President Harry S. Truman helps his wife, Bess, from auto is as they arrive to attend reception on May 5, 1954 in Washington. (AP Photo/HWG)

Napalm bombs burst over trenches occupied by Communist-led Vietminh besiegers of Dien Bien Phu, March 28, 1954. French Union defenders of the fortres...

The battle rages on in Dien Bien Phu, Indo China, March 14, 1954 as elite Algerian sharpshooters engage in battle, with an estimated 3,000 Vietminhs d...

Screen actress Ava Gardner models fancy black velvet bathing suit on yacht at Portofino, near Genoa, Italy on March 8, 1954. She wears the suit in

Mrs. Eunkee Lee, left, proud mother of Major Sammy Lee, Olympic diving champion, center, as he accepts the James E. Sullivan Award Trophy from Louis W...

French and Vietnam forces have launched a new attack against Vietminh troops to the north of Dien Bien Phu, Indochina, Feb. 1, 1954. France-Vietnam tr...

Angry actress Ava Gardner insults AP Photographer Mario Torrisi (not in picture) as he takes her picture tonight at the Rome Ciampino Airport when she...

Hunger drove these two communist guerrillas out of the Pahang Jungle of Malaya to surrender, but the sight of delicious Chinese food in Town prompted...

A painting of Henri Christophe, once emperor of Haiti, hangs in the presidential palace, December 14, 1953. It is copy of a painting by an English art...

Starting Monday, November 16, 1953 the public will be able to watch the stock exchange at work from a gallery built specially for the purpose. Previou...

Joe Lapchick, one of basketball's Original Celtics, died on August 10, 1970 at a hospital in Monticello, N.Y. He was 70. Lapchick, a member of ba...

Earl Warren smiles and waves standing at the base of the two pillars of the Supreme Court building on Oct. 5, 1953 after arriving to become the 14th c...

Edmund Hillary, June 27, 1953, who with Tensing was the first to make the ascent of Mt. Everest. (AP Photo)

Sweetwater Clifton of the New York Knickerbockers (right, No.8, Dark reaches for the ball as George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers (center, No.99, wh...

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Broadway and film director Joshua Logan, left, strikes a pose with musical comedy star Mary Martin at the set in a scene for the movie

Knickerbockers' Coach Joe Lapchick, right, points out something to Clair Bee, former Long Island University (LIU) cage coach and newly named pilot of...

Walter F. O'Malley, Brooklyn Dodgers president, finds 9th inning action to his liking as he yells Dodgers on in third World Series game, Oct. 3, 1952...

Joe Lapchick Jr., son of the coach Lapchick of the New York knickerbockers basketball team, practices for Army football team on August 29, 1952. (A...

Bicycles are a favorite means of getting to key locations on the Yosemite Valley Floor in Yosemite National Park in California, July 8, 1952. Large pa...

Maj. Samuel Lee, left, and his wife Rosalind Lee, look over Astoria Park Pool, just before the Olympic tryouts, June 30, 1952, New York. Maj. Lee is a...

Vietnamese troops chasing retreating Vietminh rebels come across a burning hut left by the insurgents in Vietnam, June 20, 1952. The Vietminhs carrie...

A Chinese woman places an answered questionnaire into a sealed box held by two British soldiers on May 23, 1952. (AP Photo)

Sgt. First Class John Rosner and fianc??e Jerry Goodman embrace on a Seattle pier amid litter of paper cups left behind by troops debarking from USNS...

Jacklyn Lucas, of Winston-Salem, N.C., right, former Marine corporal and youngest Congressional Medal of Honor winner in U. S. history, won it at 17 y...

Humphrey Bogart and wife Lauren Bacall arriving for Academy Awards presentations in Hollywood on March 20, 1952. (AP Photo)

Lieut. D. W. Spicer, left, holds a bottle of special saline solution which forces radioactive gold prepared at the Oak Ridge atomic energy plant, thro...

Vietnamese firemen use hoses on 15 burning autos in the Place de Theatre in Saigon, Jan. 18, 1952, where several explosions occurred. Soldiers and pol...

Ava Gardner, film star, laughs as Frank Sinatra talks with gestures as they leave Pennsylvania Station in New York on Nov. 2, 1951, following their ar...