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Stan Musial, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, is seen in this March 6, 1948 photo, during spring training at St. Petersburg, Florida. (AP Phot...

This picture shows one of the big electric furnaces in the Tennessee Valley Authority's chemical plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on March 4, 1948, wh...

Dr. Samuel Green, center, Georgia Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, in opposing President Truman's Civil Rights Program, speaks at a Klan demonstratio...

The decapitated head of Ting Hsi-Shan, who led an unsuccessful Communist guerrilla raid in the Tsingpu area near Shanghai, hangs from the City wall at...

Dr. T. Dale Stewart, Smithsonian Curator of Physical Anthropology, is pictured on Feb. 23,1948, in Washington, comparing two skulls. One is the flatt...

The U.S. four-man bobsled team, gold medal winner of the Olympic championship, is shown February 6, 1948 at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Left to right:...

Mrs. Gretchen Fraser, right, of Vancouver, WA, winner of the Olympic women's special slalom event, stands with Erika Mahringer of Austria, who finishe...

Andrea Mead, right, of Rutland, VT, a member of the American Women's Ski Team at the Winter Olympics, chats with Capt. E.N. Millington of the First In...

Gretchen Fraser, a housewife of Vancouver, Wa., is all smiles, February 4, 1948, after placing second in the Women's Alpine combined ski test, at St....

Assassination of Mohandas K. Gandhi, spiritual leader of the Hindus, startled the world early in 1948. Here a souvenir hunter scoops ashes from the f...

The rose petal-covered body of Mohandas K. Gandhi, his chest laid bare to expose his bullet wounds, is shown lying in state in Birla House, New Delhi,...

Dick Button of Englewood, N.J., U.S. and North American men's figure skating champion, and winner of the European title, executes a jump during a prac...

Truman Capote, author of

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Marshall Davis Miles, rear, manager and lifelong friend of boxing great Joe Louis, looks over Louis' shoulder in New York on Jan. 8, 1948. (AP Photo)

Jackie, a 20-year-old African lion owned and trained by Melvin Koontz, noted Hollywood animal trainer, pickets the gate at the General Service Studio...

Johnny Vander Meer, the Cincinnati Reds' pitcher, is shown in 1948. (AP Photo)

This is a 1948 ad for the Liggett Group featuring Ronald Reagan that was published in 1948 in Life Magazine. This and other ads featuring stars of the...

Little Stanley Stawas, 4, wasn't able to autograph the cast on recuperating Joe DiMaggio's arm in Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, MD, on Novembe...

Howard Hughes sits at the controls of his giant wooden flying boat dubbed the Spruce Goose as he checked the aircraft prior to the first and only flig...

The New York Yankees brass, from left to right, co-owners Del Webb and Dan Topping and General Manager George Weiss, pose before a photo of Yankee Sta...

A portrait of George Weiss, the new general manager of the New York Yankees, October 8, 1947. (AP Photo/Rooney)

Larry MacPhail, left, Yankees president, congratulates manager Bucky Harris in the dressing room at Yankee Stadium, New York, October 6, 1947, after t...

Former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Vic Lombardi, shown in this Oct, 5, 1947 photo during the World Series at New York's Yankee Stadium, died following he...

From left to right: Mary Livingston, Eddie Anderson, and Jack Benny, rehearsing a radio broadcast in Hollywood on October 3, 1947. (AP Photo/stf)

Yankees' centerfielder Joe DiMaggio crosses the plate with his fifth inning home run during the third game of the World Series at Ebbets Field, Brookl...

Five Hall of Famer's crowded into one picture at the Old Timers game at Yankee Stadium, September 28, 1947. From left to right: Cy Young, Duffy Lewis...

Members of the National League Pennant bound Brooklyn Dodgers are pictured at Ebbets Field, Sept. 20, 1947. Left to right front are Stan Strull, batbo...

Ralph Kiner, Pittsburgh Pirate left fielder, bats against the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh, Pa., on September 6, 1947.(AP Photo/Danny Jacine)

This is a frontal view of Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb on Riverside Drive in New York City on August 31, 1947. (AP Photo)

A frontal view of Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb on Riverside Drive in New York, August 31, 1947. (AP Photo)

Marine Major Marion Carl, left, talks with Navy Commander Turner F. Caldwell, Jr. at Muroc, Calif., on Aug. 26, 1947, after the Marine Corps flyer set...

Comdr. Turner F. Caldwell walks from the jet propelled D-558 skystreak which he flew to a new world air speed record at Muroc Army Air Base in Califor...

Lou Boudreau, left, of the Cleveland Indians, and George Kell, of the Detroit Tigers, the top batters in the American League, shown on August 19, 1947...

An August 18, 1947 portrait of St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Joseph Medwick. (AP Photo)

Some of the 2,000 Chinese soldiers taken prisoner by the Nationalists huddle in the hold of a ship in Shanghai, China, on August 16, 1947. The ship,...

The Lincoln Memorial, which will be 25 years old on Memorial Day, is visited by more people than any other monument in Washington. The statue of Linc...

Ellis Island in New York Bay may be closed down soon by the government, after half a century of service as the gateway to the United States for more t...

David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, leaves plane at LaGuardia Field in New York City on May 8, 1947, after...

Actress Agnes Moorehead, who plays the role of the 105-year-old Juliana in the picture

Joe DiMaggio, star Yankee outfielder, passes on a few batting tips to his five and one half year old son, Joseph III prior to the Yankees - Washington...

Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson, first black to ever be admitted into the Major Leagues, is at first base at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, April 11, 1947....

Jackie Robinson, first Negro to ever be admitted into the major leagues, photographed right after he signed his contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers at...

Mohandas Gandhi is shown posed in the garden of the Viceregal Lodge, New Delhi, India, March 31, 1947. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

Andrea Mead, 14-year-old Rutland, VT skier, uses her ski poles to give her impetus as she starts a downhill run at Sun Valley, Idaho, March 27, 1947....

Paulette Goddard and her husband, Burgess Meredith, partake of cocktails March 17, 1947 at a reception in London's Dorchester Hotel shortly after thei...

Billy Herman, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is photographed in New Albany, Indiana, on January 15, 1947. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1...

Sonja Henie is seen in her Hollywood ice review at Madison Square Garden, New York in 1947. (AP Photo)

Clarence H. DeMar is shown in 1947. DeMar was the seven-time winner of the Boston Marathon and was a member of three Olympic teams. (AP Photo)

Hollywood star Rita Hayworth is shown in this 1947 photo. (AP Photo)