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Liberace, piano virtuoso who became known as Mr. Showmanship, is shown with Elvis Presley at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas in November, 1956. (AP...

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Roerich from Bavaria, Germany, look to the future in New York City October 28, 1956, from the stern of the USNS General Langfitt, an...

Isaac Berger presses 220 pounds at the U.S. Olympic trials weight lifting meet in San Jose, California October 28, 1956. Berger went on to win the go...

New Associate Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan holds his 7-year-old daughter Nancy as his wife, Marjorie, holds his robe on Oct. 16, 1956, in...

Some members of the Holmby Hills Rat Pack, a group of exceedingly well heeled Bohemians that include screen stars and millionaires from Hollywood's su...

Walt Alston, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, seems satisfied with the way things are going at Ebbets Field these days, and not without reason. Here...

Smiling broadly, Dodgers' Duke Snider, comes home to a welcome from teammates Peewee Reese (1) and Junior Gilliam (19) after belting a three-run homer...

President Eisenhower, left, shakes the hand of Judge William J. Brennan Jr. in his White House office on Sept. 29, 1956, after selecting Brennan to be...

Catcher Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees holds the ball which he hit into the upper right field bleachers at Briggs Stadium for his 237th home run,...

U.S. Senate Majority leader Lyndon Johnson, left, has a serious chat with House Speaker Sam Rayburn, right, as they attend the Democratic State Conven...

These signs appeared in Fort Worth, Texas, Riverside section September 2, 1956, during a protest over a black family moving into a previously all whit...

Two unidentified black students walk past a car lettered with anti-integration slogans and drawings as Clinton High School, Clinton, Tennessee, ended...

Delegates hoist signs and stand up as the name of Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts is placed before the Democratic Convention, August 17, 1956, a...

The DiMaggio brothers, Vince, Joe, and Dom, left to right, wear the old colors of the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League to play the outf...

World champion Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina, shown at the wheel of an Italian Ferrari, won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, England, July 14,...

World champion Juan Manuel Fangio, with his long-time companion Andreina, after winning the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, July 14, 1956. (AP Pho...

Mickey Mantle, the New York Yankees' slugging centerfielder, hits a grounder upon his return to the lineup for the first game of a series at Washingto...

Sam Snead, left, and Ben Hogan flank the Canada Cup and American industrialist John Jay Hopkins after their victory in the Canada Cup in Virginia Wate...

Peter Collins of Great Britain, (teamed with Mike Hawthorn), steers his Ferrari to win the Supercortemaggiore Grand Prix on the Monza, Italy track, Ju...

The start of the Francorchamp Grand Prix in Belgium, June 3, 1956. Left to right, first row: Peter Collins, Britain, Ferrari; Stirling Moss, Britain...

Holding the Prince Rainier Cup, Sterling Moss of Britain is interviewed after winning the Monaco Grand Prix Car Race, May 13,1956. He drove a Maserat...

Duke Snider of the Brooklyn Dodgers gets a big kiss from his son Kejit, 6, in the Polo Grounds, NY, dressing room, May 13, 1956. (AP Photo)

In sunny Monte Carlo, thousands of spectators line up behind the fences to watch the start of the Monaco Grand Prix on May 13, 1956. Front row, left...

Judging from his expression, Jack Benny's grandson, Michael, nine months old, has all the makings of a first-rate music critic as he bends an ear to t...

Miami Marlin's Leroy

An elderly unidentified black woman boards a bus August 24, 1956, after Montgomery City Lines abandoned segregation in the wake of the Supreme Court's...

Prince Rainier III and his bride, actress Grace Kelly, leave Monaco's Cathedral after a religious wedding ceremony, April 19, 1956. The couple passed...

Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina in the Ferrari (4) shown crossing the finish line ahead of Luigi Musso's Ferrari (26) of Italy at the finish of the Gr...

Two leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the center of their most highly spotlighted case, pictured h...

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., left, is pictured talking with C. Ewbank Tucker, Louisville, Kentucky, one of his eight attorneys and also a preache...

The Rev. Robert A. Graetz, white pastor of a black Lutheran Church in Montgomery, Ala., testified March 22, 1956 that he has never heard the Rev. Mart...

The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, left, shakes hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Ala., March 22, 1956, as a big crowd of supporters...

The 1955 National League batting champion Richie Ashburn of the Philadelphia Phillies, left, and the ex-champion Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinal...

This is a March 6, 1956 photo of infielder Vic Wertz of the Cleveland Indians, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo)

Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers infielder is seen at spring training in Vero Beach, Florida, in March 1956. It would be Robinson's tenth and la...

Stan Musial, of the St. Louis Cardinal, during spring training in St. Petersburg, Florida, in March 1956. (AP Photo)

Walter Alston, manager of the World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, poses at his team's spring training complex in Vero Beach, Fl., March 1956. (AP Photo)

Autherine Lucy, 26, the only black person ever to attend the 126 year old University of Alabama, smiled February 29, 1956, after U.S. District Judge H...

Black co-ed Autherine Lucy, center, smiled happily February 29, 1956, as she and her attorneys, Thurgood Marshall, second from left, and Arthur Shores...

Willie Mays, star centerfielder for the New York Giants, sparkles in early spring workout as he leaps high to snare a ball near the outfield fence at...

Clarence Mitchell, second from right, stands at the ticket window in the white waiting room of a railroad station in Florence, South Carolina, Februar...

Autherine Lucy, 26, the only black person ever to attend the University of Alabama, is shown February 20, 1956, awaiting U.S. District Judge Hobart Gr...

Bright smiles light faces of Carol Heiss, of Ozone Park, NY, and Hayes Alan Jenkins of Colorado Springs, CO after they captured world figure skating t...

Olympic women's skating champion Tenley Albright, and runner-up Carol Heiss, right, get a ride on a sled used to ferry beer barrels in Garmisch-Parten...

University of Alabama students wipe their eyes after police blasted them with tear gas and smoke bombs February 7, 1956, Tuscaloosa, Ala., in an attem...

University of Alabama students burn desegregation propaganda during a demonstration in Tuscaloosa, Al, February 6, 1956, against the enrollment of a b...

An unidentified speaker addresses a group of several hundred persons in Tuscaloosa, AL February 6, 1956, protesting admission of Autherine Lucy, a bla...

Franz Kapus, 46 year old Swiss chauffeur, drives his country's four-man bobsled to Olympic victory at Cortina D'Ampezza, Italy, February 4, 1956. Kap...

Austria's Toni Sailer, a 21-year-old plumber, displays his ski wizardry as he takes to the air during his winning run in the men's downhill Olympic sk...

Austria's Toni Sailer, a 21-year-old plumber, skis down the treacherous Tofana course in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, on February 3, 1956 to win the down...