AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

A newsman wears a rubber mask similar to that worn by seven bandits who robbed Brink's armored car firm in Boston of $1, 50,000, Jan. 18, 1950. The re...

Two unidentified people look at entrance of Brink's Inc., an armored truck firm's garage on Prince Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, Jan. 17, 1950, wh...

Patrolman Thomas O'Brien (left fore ground) talks with Charles S. Grell (center) and Herman G. Pfaff (right), two of the five employees of Brink's Inc...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower bends over for a closer look at painting presented him by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi , kneeling, during Ike?s visit to...

Scoreboard in the Notre Dame stadium was about the only thing free of snow in South Bend, Indiana, Nov. 25, 1949 after a three-and-a half inch Thanksg...

U.S. American movie producer Cecil B. DeMille smiles as he is pictured in New York City, USA, November 16, 1949. (AP Photo)

Police search everyone entering the House of Representatives for weapons in Bogota, Colombia, Sept. 14, 1949. This precaution has been taken since the...

Trainer Ben Jones, left, holds Calumet Farm?s Ponder in the winner's circle at Churchill Downs, Louisville, May 7, 1949, after the three-year-old colt...

Outfielder Duke Snider rubs sun tan oil on the arm of his wife, Beverly, at the new swimming pool in Vero Beach, Florida, March 3, 1949. (AP Photo)

Charles H. Percy, 29-year-old President of Bell & Howell Co., lost his wife a year ago when she died during an operation. Since then he has retained c...

Jerry Lewis (left) whips through his portion of the famous Lewis-Martin comic routine, while Margaret Whiting and Dean Martin look on at the Hollywoo...

An Arab family is shown in one of the refugee camps in the Egyptian-held part of southern Palestine, Jan. 18, 1949. With a good tent to live in, they...

Business executive Charles H. Percy born in Pensacola, Florida, Sept. 27, 1919 studied at University of Chicago. He began his working life at age of f...

Rep. Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) poses with gavel upraised after his election in Washington, D.C., as speaker of the House of Representatives, Jan. 3, 1949....

Four carolers, attired in the mode of the 1860s, sing Christmas songs as the first appreciable snow of the season blankets in Kansas City, Missouri, o...

Penn State students are shown as they picketed a Barber shop on Dec. 10, 1948 in State College over alleged refusal of the shops in this college town...

On the rail of the ocean liner Mauretania at Southampton, England on Nov. 22, 1948 are: Joan Caulfield, Billy DeWolfe; Patricia Neal; Virginia Mayo; h...

Boston???s Newspaper Row is filled with people watching the election returns in Boston, on Nov. 2, 1948 as they are flashed on a giant screen from a p...

Bob Feller, Cleveland Pitcher on August 10, 1948. (AP Photo)

Dean Cromwell, (left), of the University of Southern California, who is head coach of the U.S. men???s Olympic track team, gives a hug and handshake t...

Charley Trippi of Chicago Cardinals shown at Waukesha, Wisconsin on August 2, 1948. (AP Photo)

Robert E. Richards, of Champaign, Illinois, gets some advice from track Coach Dean Cromwell, at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on July 31, 1948....

Wally Ris (right), of Iowa, and Alan Ford, of New Haven, Connecticut, stand shoulder to shoulder in Empire Pool, Wembley, England, on July 31, 1948....

Head track coach Dean Cromwell (left) of the University of Southern California watches four top American sprinters limber up on a deck of the liner Am...

Arrow shows path of United Airlines DC-6 Transport to transformer station near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1948. The big plane, with 43 pe...

Mel Patton and his coach, Dean Crowmell of the University of Southern California, check over his past performances, in Los Angeles, on June 14, 1948....

Two Arab soldiers of the Trans-Jordan Arab legion stand in the turret of their armored car as they move into Palestinem May 15, 1948. Unit was part of...

Property from the Arab-occupied Jewish settlement of Neve Yaacov, north of Jerusalem is removed by Arabs following the evacuation of the settlement by...

Technical Sgt. Mario G. Allignani (left) of 168 West Fourth St., New York, and his Italian bride (center) prepare to board the U.S. Army transport ??s...

Rioters and looters storm through a street in down town Bogota, Colombia, on April 9, 1948. Note man in center with machete. (AP Photo)

Elliott Roosevelt stands by the marble stone marking the grave of his father, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the rose garden of the Roosevelt estate at Hyd...

Patricia Neal, former Broadway stage star who will soon make her screen debut in a picture now in production, is shown at lunch with actor Farley Gran...

Regimental colors of the 1st Battalion, the Somerset light infantry, are displayed at Bombay, India, on Feb. 28, 1948, the troops embarked for the Uni...

Troops of the Somerset light infantry, last British troops to leave India, parade in Bombay, on Feb. 28, 1948, prior to their departure for the United...

President leads rites at Lincoln Memorial President and Mrs. Roosevelt led the nation's observance of the 131st birthday on Feb. 12, 1948 of Abraham L...

British plastic surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, left, points out something of interest to Dr. E. Barton in one of his pictures, at the exhibition of his p...

Captain Pearl Weiss (right) of Scranton, Pa., marches a detachment of Wacs alongside the transport Admiral Sims on December 14, at the last of U.S. o...

Pitcher Harry Brecheen, on Aug. 18, 1947, St. Louis Cards. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)

Showman Earl Carroll talks with a bevy of his ??smost beautiful girls in the world??? as they appeared, in Los Angeles, on June 17, 1947 at a congress...

This is an aerial view of the Army disciplinary barracks where a race riot took place, May 3, 1947, Fort Leavenworth, Ks. One inmate was killed and se...

British plastic surgeon Sir Harold stands on the deck of the British liner Mauretania after she had docked in New York City, on May 2, 1947, after com...

J. Edger Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of investigation, calls the communist party of the United States A

Earl Carroll Broadway and Hollywood Showman, tells House Labor Committee on March 15, 1947 that the AFL musicians union force him to hire more men tha...

The Warsaw ghetto where 335,000 Jews once lived is still a lifeless wilderness, an unbroken expanse of piled bricks and rubble where nothing lives and...

Frank Costello of New York, leaves the New York police department property Clerk?s office, in New York, Jan. 11, 1947 after a final examination regard...

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Frank Costello appears at his Lawyer's office at 30 Broad Street in New York City, December, 1946. (AP Photo)

Photo shows Statistician Roger Babson, died on March 5, 1967 in Lake Wales, Florida. He was 91. (AP Photo)

Members of the R.A.F. from Jamaica, are seen making subscriptions to the President Franklin Roosevelt Memorial Fund, while waiting for their train at...

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, with her dog Fala, looks at the wreath presented by the United Nations and laid on the grave of Franklin D. Roosevelt by Paul-...