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This quintet of speed skaters, shown during a training drill at Bislett Stadium, Oslo, Norway, February 2, 1952, will represent the United States in t...

Italian Eugenio Monti is shown after winning the downhill run during the International Ski Week in Cortina, Italy, January 30, 1952. (AP Photo)

Richie Ashburn, outfielder of the Philadelphia Phillies is shown in this 1952 photo. (AP Photo)

Red Skelton paints in his Bel Air home in Los Angeles, Ca., in 1952. (AP Photo)

Monte Irvin, New York Giants' outfielder, shown in a posed fielding portrait during spring training in 1952. (AP Photo)

Ronald Reagan appears with Virginia Mayo in a scene from the 1952 film

Nina Romaschkowa, Russian discus gold medalist, 1952.

Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam who was forced to abdicate by the communists in 1945, stands with French army general Raoul Salan, left, during a...

Joe DiMaggio, star outfielder for the New York Yankees, sits in a pensive mood on the arm of a chair in the Yankee offices in New York, December 11, 1...

Yankee manager Casey Stengel, left, lets the world know right fielder Hank Bauer is his personal hero as well as hero of the sixth and concluding game...

Monte Irvin, New York Giants left fielder who seeks election as state assemblyman in New Jersey, picks up a run and some potential votes as he steals...

Still exulting in his team's dramatic win of the National League pennant, manager Leo Durocher, right, of the New York Giants has a big hug for his ma...

Brooklyn Dodgers teammates whoop it up in their dressing room at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, September 30, 1951, after they nosed out the Phillies 9-8...

New York Giants manager Leo Durocher grins widely and mops his brow in dressing room in Boston, September 30, 1951, after his

Willie Mays of the Giants, who just got through stealing second, steals third a few moments later in the second inning of the Braves game September 29...

This photo shows an aerial view of the Polo Grounds, in the foreground, and Yankee Stadium, both in New York City, on September 29, 1951. (AP Photo)

Club attendants, players, and ushers crowd around as Roy Campanella, star catcher of the Brooklyn Dodgers is carried from Wrigley Field on a stretcher...

While the rest of the

Singer Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner dine together at Reno's Riverside Hotel, August 19, 1951, where Sinatra is filling a singing engagement while ful...

Riding mules and carrying a fiery cross, some 50 or 60 robed and hooded Klansmen parade at a rally near Whiteville, N.C., August 19, 1951. Thomas L....

The owner of the St. Louis Browns, Bill Veeck, sent in Eddie Gaedel, a 3-foot, 7-inch stuntman, to pinch-hit in a game against Detroit at Sportsman's...

Harvey E. Clark, Jr., sits with his wife, Johnetta, 26, and their two children, Harvey 3rd, six, and Michele, eight, during a news conference at the o...

A statue of George Washington spreads its hands over weary office workers taking a summer lunch-hour rest on the steps of the U.S. Sub-Treasury Buildi...

Carl Sandburg and his wife

Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers in poses in action on July 14, 1951. (AP Photo/E. Ford)

Ace mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, left, and W. Alphaeus Hunton, fellow big-wig in the Civil Rights Congress, are handcuffed together after being se...

Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians smiles as radio announcer Mel Allen (right) gives the slow burn to the $3,500 mortgage on Larry's home in Paterson...

Cleveland Indians' pitching ace, Early Wynn, is shown in a posed action photo on May 16, 1951. (AP Photo)

Brooklyn Dodger manager Charley Dressen, left, shakes hands with Rex Barney in the team's dressing room in New York May 7, 1951. Barney, who pitched a...

Free Willie McGee demonstrators who chained themselves to a stone pillar of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, May 6, 1951, stage a protest again...

This is a May 1951 photo of National League umpire Al Barlick. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)

Some GI WAG, remembering those Burma shave cream signs back home, put up these signs on poles along a highway in central Korea that echoed the GI and...

Photo shows Miss Helen Costantino of New York City wearing a costume called

Robin Roberts, Phillies pitcher, and Bobby Shantz, Philadelphia A's pitcher, before the April 13, 1951 City Series game. (AP Photo/stf)

Screenwriter Paul Jarrico testifies in Washington, before the House Un-American Activities committee on April 1951. Hours after being honored as a su...

Mickey Mantle, 19 year old from Commerce, Oklahoma, is photographed in Los Angeles, March 21, 1951.(AP Photo)

Leo Durocher, manager of the New York Giants is seen during spring training in Tampa, Florida, March 1, 1951. (AP Photo/stf)

Gen. Douglas MacArthur views black troops on Kimpo Airfield, Korea, February 13, 1951. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)

Gen. Douglas MacArthur pins the Distinguished Service Cross on Sgt. Curtis Pugh, Columbus, Ga., for heroism, Kimpo Airfield, Korea, February 13, 1951....

A column of masked drummers heads the Basle, Switzerland carnival parade, which started at the Swiss-German border town at 2:00 a.m., February 12, 195...

Senators Wayne Morse, R-OR, Lyndon Johnson, D-TX, and Leverett Saltonstall, R-MA, members of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, confer during heari...

Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of Defense, and Chairman Lyndon Johnson, D-Texas, of a Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, eye each other across a t...

Marion Rombauer Becker looks over the

Golfer Ben Hogan is shown in this 1951 photo. (AP Photo)

Tim Moore, top, playing the roguish but likeable Kingfish, Spencer Williams, lower left, as the gullible and romantically-involved Andy, and Alvin Chi...

Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States stands before a microphone just before he began his radio and television speech from New York Ci...

William Faulkner, right, author and farmer from Oxford, Mississippi, wearing white tie and tails for first time in his 53 years of life, is handed 194...

Phil Rizzuto, Yankee shortstop and the American League's Most Valuable Player for 1950, perches on knee of manager Casey Stengel in the club's downtow...

The Dionne Quintuplets present gifts to the Collins quads at their home in New York City, Oct. 21, 1950. The quints from left are: Annette, Yvonne, Ce...

Olympic silver medalist in London in 1948, Pete George of the USA was second in the middleweight section of the world weight lifting championships at...