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Several men heave to upset a car at the Federal Housing Project on Chicago's South Side, December 5, 1946, where several former G.I. families became s...

Rep. John F. Kennedy, D-Ma., son of Joseph P. Kennedy, former ambassador to Great Britain, is shown looking through real estate advertisements on Capi...

This is the 5-room white frame house where President Harry S. Truman was born at Lamar, Mo., May 8, 1884. Everett M. Earp Lamar constable and real es...

The body of Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl rests on a coffin in Nuremburg Prison, October 16, 1946, after he was hanged following his conviction by an Internat...

Orson Welles inspects the new hairdo of his actress/wife Rita Hayworth, October 7, 1946, at Hollywood, California, after her long titian locks were sh...

Rival World Series managers, Joe Cronin of the Red Sox , left, and Eddie Dyer of the Cardinals, shake hands before World Series opener October 6, 194...

The time honored procedure of make-up of the minstrel was reversed recently by black actor Canada Lee who was made up in whiteface for his part as Dan...

A long line of women wait patiently in the rain in New York, September 21, 1946, in front of a meat market at 14th Street and the Avenue of the Americ...

Film actress Jane Russell receives a trophy emblematic of husband Bob Waterfield being the Most Valuable Player of 1945 in the National Football Leagu...

A mushroom-topped column of smoke and gas, brighter than the sun, rises through a disintegrating vapor cloud over Bikini Lagoon in the aerial bomb tes...

This picture shows thousands of religious Hindus bathing in the Jumna River in Old Delhi, India, on June 9, 1946, to celebrate the festival of Ganga D...

Singers Lena Horne and Paul Robeson look over plans May 15, 1946, for the rally at Madison Square Garden, June 6, on the theme of

Leo Durocher, Brooklyn manager, May 9, 1946, registered a beef in the sixth inning of a game with the Cincinnati Reds at Cincinnati, Ohio. Umpire Joc...

Bob Feller, left, Cleveland's fireball pitcher, shakes hands with his battery mate, catcher Frank Hayes, in the Indians' dressing room after hurling a...

Tom Long, a foreman at a bituminous coal mine in the eastern part of Kentucky, one of the 4,000 mines which have been closed, directs the oiling by on...

Youngsters jam around the box of Babe Ruth and Mrs. Ruth at Yankee Stadium, April 19, 1946, in search of autographs as the Ruths attended the opening...

These pickets paraded in front of the 74th Street Armory in Buffalo, N.Y., scene of the American Bowling Congress' 43rd Annual World Championship Tour...

Stan Musial has just been discharged from the Navy and played his last season with the Cards in 1944 when he hit .347. Musial rounds out the Cards th...

The Aga Khan III celebrates his 60th anniversary as head of the Mohammedan Ismaili sect by balancing himself against a matching weight of diamonds at...

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Some 200 black people marched around Atlanta's skyscraper City Hall twice then assembled on the city hall steps, March 4, 1946, while speakers asked t...

Connie Mack, 83-year-old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, steps to the mound at the A's training camp at West Palm Beach, Florida, February 24,...

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The Third Avenue el winds its way through lower Manhattan, February 12, 1946. (AP Photo/stf)

A little girl steps into the street and rouses the dragon as it moves through New York City's Chinatown February 2, 1946, during the parade marking th...

Pictured January 22, 1946, the Stanley Theater, at left, on the south end of Times Square, showed classic Russian films, documentaries, and the latest...

Congressman John F. Kennedy is shown talking to Eleanor Roosevelt, in Washington, DC, 1946. (AP Photo)

A youthful John F. Kennedy is shown campaigning for Congress from Massachusetts' Eleventh District in 1946. (AP Photo)

John F. Kennedy, second from left, is shown with his mother, Rose Kennedy, and his maternal grandparents, Mrs. Josephine Fitzgerald, far left, and for...

Jack Kennedy, flanked by his parents, Rose and Joseph Kennedy, is acclaimed in East Boston as he wins his first political fight in 1946. (AP Photo)

Associated Press war-correspondent J. Wes Gallagher, left, runs ahead of the pack as the sentences in the Nuremberg trials are about to be read in thi...

Mystery novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler, shown in a 1946 portrait, created private eye Philip Marlowe in the novels

American poet Ezra Pound had this portrait taken on the day he was admitted to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, December 26, 1945. Pound spent...

Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, attend a traditional Hollywood world premiere, December 23, 1945. (AP Photo)

Twenty-four years ago, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the first speakers over WJZ, the local outlet for the then National Broadcasting Co. In 19...

This is the bedroom used by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a boy at his home in Hyde Park, New York, seen December 15, 1945. The bed fra...

Nazi war criminals are seated in the defendants box in the courtroom at Nuremberg, Germany during the International Tribunal in November 21, 1945. Fr...

Attorney General Francis Biddle, U.S. tribunal judge for the Nuremburg trials, is photographed in Paris on November 19, 1945. (AP Photo)

Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia speaks at a reception in the Rainbow Room in New York City, November 13, 1945, marking the opening of the first Australia...

Jackie Robinson, who signed a contract with Montreal of the International League today, October 23, 1945, is shown in the uniform of the Kansas City M...

Protesting the refusal by the Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of the use of its hall by Hazel Scott, Negro pianist, the...

Washington Senators catcher Rick Ferrell is seen in this September 18, 1945 photo. (AP Photo)

Rick Ferrell, catcher for the Washington Senators, is shown in this September 18, 1945 photo. (AP Photo/stf)

Joe DiMaggio with his son Joe III and his wife on September 16, 1945. (AP Photo/John Lindsay)

With a gaping bullet wound just below the heart, Gen. Hideki Tojo, former Japanese premier who failed to lead Japan to victory, lies semi-conscious in...

An unidentified Japanese is pictured making Gen. Hideki Tojo comfortable on a bed in his home as the former Premier of Japan grimaces from pain caused...

General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, speaking at the formal surrender ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Se...

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, and General Wainwright, who surrendered to the Japanese after Bataan and Corregidor,...

President Truman sits before this microphone at the White House September 1, 1945, where he will broadcast a message on the formal surrender of Japan....

Babe Ruth (left), manager of the Esquire All American East Team, and Ty Cobb, West Team manager, play