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Hull House, on the corner of Halsted and Polk Sts. in Chicago, Ill., is shown on July 10, 1946. The settlement house, founded by Jane Addams in 1889,...

Dr. Lise Meitner, Austrian nuclear physicist, stands at rail on deck of the liner Queen Mary before sailing for Southampton, England, from New York Ci...

A bespectacled Mohandas Gandhi, the Mahatma, who eventually led India to its independence, laughs with the man who was to be the nation's first prime...

Alicia Alonso, left, and Nora Kaye, principal dancers with the American Ballet Theater, arrive in London, England, June 26, 1946. The company will ma...

Contestants take part in the Viennese Walz section of the Metropolitan dance contest in New York City on June 5, 1946. (AP Photo)

The 1896 Packard Buggy model, right, and the Super-Clipper 1946 Packard are shown side-by-side at an auto exhibition on June 3, 1946 at an unknown loc...

This general view shows Yankee Stadium as 49,917 fans watch the New York Yankees host Washington in the Bronx on May 28, 1946. This is the team's fir...

The Santa Fe Chief bound for Chicago crosses the Aroyo Seco bridge near Pasadena, Ca., a few minutes after leaving Los Angeles, on May 24, 1946. The...

The Santa Fe Chief No. 20 train travels eastbound as it approaches the Chicago Terminal, Ill., on May 21, 1946. (AP Photo)

Three cattle workers are shown astride their horses at the Tandileofu Ranch in Tandil, Argentina on May 1, 1946. They cushion their saddles with cure...

Men riding donkeys lead a camel caravan across one of the plains on the outskirts of Ankara to bring their goods to sell at the market in Ankara, Turk...

People using horse and carriage transportation are shown traveling along the main modern highway running from Istanbul to Ankara, in background, in Tu...

People dressed in period costume take part in a parade of early model automobiles held in connection with the Automobile Golden Jubilee preview at Fra...

A coal miner and his mule pose at the American Radiator Mine in West Moreland, Homestead, Pa., in April 1946. (AP Photo)

Former first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, right, and Edith Wilson exchange greetings at a dinner given for Roosevelt by the women's joint congressional c...

Honus Wagner of the Pittsburgh Pirates is shown in batting position at the San Bernardino, Ca., spring training camp on Feb. 24, 1946. An all-around...

Rep. Frank Boykin,D-Ala., examines a weapons collection at his Washington office, Feb.19,1946 after a delegation of Senators called on President Harr...

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This is a February 1946 photo of actress Katherine Cornell in the role of Antigone and actor Cedric Hardwicke as Creon, the King of Thebes, pose in ch...

A member of the drilling crew works inside the towering 168-foot drilling rig of Esso No. 1 at Cape Hatteras, N.C., Jan. 19, 1946. At Cape Hatteras t...

Josef Stalin, 66, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, is shown on Jan. 16, 1946. (AP Photo)

Byron Nelson, center, putts at the 18th hole in the final round of the San Francisco Open in San Francisco, Ca., Jan. 13, 1946. Nelson finished with...

Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong and pianist Duke Ellington rehearse Leonard Feather's song

This is a general view of the first session of the United Nations Organization's General Assembly at Central Hall on Parliament Square in London, Engl...

The Great Kremlin Palace, left, built during the reign of Nicholas I, is shown within the fortified walls of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Jan. 7,...

Byron Nelson, left, of Denton, Texas, and Ben Hogan, of Hershey, Pa., are shown before teeing off in the $10,000 Fort Worth Open at the Glen Garden C...

Mexican painter Jose Clemente Orozco completes an oil painting in his two-room apartment on E. 79th St. in New York City on Dec. 4, 1945. (AP Photo)

Mexican painter and muralist Jose Clemente Orozco looks over some of his drawings in his New York City apartment on Dec. 4, 1945. (AP Photo/Robert Kr...

Mexican painter and muralist Jose Clemente Orozco poses in his New York City apartment on Dec. 4, 1945. Orozco was born in Ciudad Guzman in 1883 and...

Winston Churchill holds up two fingers to make a V-sign for Victory as he salutes from an open car in Antwerp, Belgium, on Nov. 17, 1945. (AP Photo/C...

Winston Churchill smiles as he stands in an open car in Antwerp, Belgium, on Nov. 17, 1945. (AP Photo/Clover)

On behalf of U.S. President Harry Truman, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson makes the first presentation of the recently authorized Medal of Freedo...

This aerial view of Warsaw, Poland, taken on Oct. 2, 1945, shows the destruction from World War II. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)

Actor James Cagney explains the intricacies of a motion picture camera to his visiting guest Lt. Audie L. Murphy of Farmersville, Texas, holder of the...

Chiefs of the Sioux Indian Nation Frank Good Lance, left, and Henry Standing Bear, right, along with Col. William C. Lewis, left foreground, raise the...

A British landing party, foreground, heads for shore from MHS Indomitabel, background, to guard key points as British forces move in to conduct surren...

This general view shows temporary housing built from galvanized iron roofing of burned buildings in Tokyo, Japan on Sept. 7, 1945. With the exception...

Marilyn Buferd, of Los Angeles, Ca., sits on the throne wearing the regal robe as former Miss America Bess Myerson transfers her crown to Miss America...

Makeshift housing built from galvanized iron roofing of burned buildings stand amid destruction and rubble in Tokyo, Japan on Sept. 7, 1945. With the...

Lt. Gen. Sadae Inoue, commander of Japanese forces, signs the surrender turning over Palau Islands to Brig. Gen. F.O. Rogers, right, aboard the USS Am...

Songwriter Jule Styne poses in Hollywood, Ca., on Sept. 14, 1945. Styne was born Julius Stein in London, England in 1905. He died in New York City i...

Bess Myerson, of New York City, wears her regal robe and holds the scepter after being crowned Miss America 1945 at the annual Miss America pageant in...

Composer Jule Styne is shown holding a clarinet in Hollywood, Ca., on Sept. 14, 1945. (AP Photo)

This aerial view shows a section of the U.S. Army Air Force's new Superfortress base at Saipan, Japan August 28, 1945 during World War II. The giant...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, center, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, salutes during a V-J parade on Galle Face Green, Colombo, Ceylon, on Aug. 2...

Finishing touches are placed on top-loading washing machines rolling off the assembly lines of the Hurley Machine Company plant in Cicero, Ill., on Au...

Errol Flynn is shown with his pet schnauzer Moody while the actor rests on his canvas chair on the set of

Candy Jones, a model who had bee in the Pacific for ten months entertaining troops, arrives home with American soldiers from Pearl Harbor as they cele...

U.S. Marines of the Third Amphibious Corps in the Pacific gather around the radio, some dressed, some undressed, to hear a breaking news report on Aug...

U.S. President Harry Truman, left, back from the Potsdam conference, is shown at his White House desk with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in Washin...