AP Historical Hard Drive 1997

Joe DiMaggio, who broke up the second World Series game with a home run in the tenth inning, is surrounded by jubilant teammates in the dressing room...

Robin Roberts, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher during the second World Series game at Shibe Park in the 9th inning, October 5, 1950. Roberts lost a clo...

Phil Rizzuto, shortstop for the New York Yankees, swings a bat for the camera in this October 2, 1950 photo. (AP Photo)

High over Manhattan, a workman is busy on construction for the Empire State Building's new 217 foot multiple television tower, September 28, 1950. Th...

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This group of Manhattan youngsters are shown playing their version of

Marilyn Monroe is shown in this September 1950 photo. (AP Photo)

Black players on the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cleveland Indians teams, from left are, Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn; Larry Doby, Cleveland; Don Newcombe, Broo...

Ralph Kiner, right, Pittsburgh Pirate slugger, enjoys a chat with another slugging great, Boston's Ted Williams before the start of the All-Star game...

Hal Newhouser, Detroit Tiger ace, warming up before a White Sox game, June 28, 1950. (AP Photo/stf)

Hal Newhouser, Detroit Tiger ace, warming up before a White Sox game, June 28, 1950. (AP Photo/stf)

Baritone Paul Robeson, sings folk songs to the crowd at the Civil Rights Congress rally at Madison Square Garden, New York City, June 28, 1950. (AP P...

Ring Lardner, Jr., left, and Lester Cole, Hollywood Ten screenwriters who were jailed during the Red Scare in the 1950s, arrive at federal court in Wa...

Young Joe DiMaggio, Jr., son of the famous Yankee slugger, with manager Casey Stengel in the dugout at Yankee Stadium, New York City, June 7, 1950. C...

Italian race driver Luigi Fagioli tries out the chief Marshall's Corgi just for the change at the R.A.C. Silverstone Circuit near Towcester, Northampt...

The first automobile Grand Prix of Modena was won May 6, 1950 by Alberto Ascari of Italy, racing a Ferrari 2,000 c.c. in front of a cheering crowd of...

Manager Billy Southworth, right, of the Boston Braves, looks over two of his pitching aces, Warren Spahn, left, and Johnny Sain, center, at Boston on...

Connie Mack, 87 year old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, poses as catcher on April 13, 1950. (AP Photo)

Erle Stanley Gardner, prolific writer of mystery stories, has his own shelf of books and it is more than five feet high, April 4, 1950. In fact these...

Dick Button, Harvard sophomore who holds all of the world's major figure skating titles for which he is eligible, holds the coveted James E. Sullivan...

This trio is working on

Orson Welles, a cigar in his mouth, has his armor adjusted before filming a scene from

Jack Benny, shown in his characteristic

At court hearing eight years ago, Johnny Stompanato, left, who was stabbed to death in the home of actress Lana Turner, is shown seated with reputed g...

Southern Evangelist, Bishop Marcelino Mamed Grace, a black religious leader, called

His Imperial Majesty, the Shah of Iran, right, talks with President Harry S Truman the night of November 18, 1949, at a Shoreham Hotel dinner in Washi...

Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodger chosen most valuable player in the National League for 1949, relaxes with his trophies at home in Queens, New York, N...

President Harry S. Truman congratulates Dr. Ralph Bunche, Director of Trusteeship of the United Nations, after presenting the Outstanding Citizenship...

President harry S Truman, left, talks with Prime Minister Nehru of India, right, on the steps of Blair House, the official residence of the President...

A happy Casey Stengel (center) whoops it up at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, October 9, 1949, after the Yankees beat the Dodgers four games to one, to win t...

Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto batting against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series, October 8, 1949. (AP Photo/Rooney)

Joe DiMaggio at bat in the ninth inning of the fourth game of the 1949 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, October 7, 1949. The Yanks took the...

Peewee Reese, Brooklyn Dodger shortstop, is congratulated by Eddie Miksis, 34, as he crosses home plate after his fourth inning home run in October 7,...

Branch Rickey, right, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, embraces pitcher Preacher Roe after the Dodgers won the second game of the World Series, 1-0,...

Dodger president Branch Rickey makes his way to the dressing room to congratulate

Branch Rickey, president and part owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, gestures as he talks to three confident looking players on his team at Yankee Stadium...

Unidentified men watch a burning cross in Valdosta, Ga., September 4, 1949. Sign at the left says,

New York State Trooper J. P. Christian picks up a torn picture of black left-wing singer Paul Robeson at a picnic grove near Peekskill, N.Y. August 27...

President Harry S. Truman stands on gamgway of the yacht Williamsburg contemplating the water, before a dip in the Atlantic off Bermuda, Aug. 27, 1946...

Paul Robeson, third from left, the Negro singer, picketing the White House August 4, 1949, along with about 100 persons all carrying placards asking P...

Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankees, is safe at home as he scores from third base after Joe DiMaggio had flied out to John Groth in 8th inning of game with...

His face twisted with pain, an unidentified man is led away by police from the scene of the threatened race riot at Washington's Anacostia park swimmi...

An unidentified hard-riding Washington, D.C. park policeman looks back at cringing girl, identified as Joan Sexton, after his horse raced over her, Ju...

Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees singles to left field after five pitches in the second inning of the Red Sox - Yankees night game at Fenway Park,...

Surrounded by a group of white youths, this unidentified Black man grimaces as Police Lt. Nicholas Kube, left, tries to halt an attack on him in St. L...

Sir Rudolph Bing of London is pictured in June 1949. Bing, the autocratic impresario who propelled the Metropolitan Opera to new heights in populari...

While another Chinese man, right, watches curiously, an executioner holds his smoking pistol still pointed at the head of a convict as he completes a...

This is a general view of the section of Holland Tunnel which was damaged, May 13, 1949, when an explosion occurred on a truck hauling chemicals throu...

U.S. Chief Delegate Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, left, is shown with artist Pablo Picasso in the Salle Playel Auditorium in Paris, April 20, 1949 at the openin...

Actress Jane Russell arrives at the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood March 28, 1949, with her husband Bob Waterfield, professional football star.