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Jawaharlal Nehru salutes the flag as he becomes independent India's first prime minister on August 15, 1947 during the Independence Day ceremony at Re...

Howard Hughes speaks before the U.S. Senate war investigations sub-committee in Washington, D.C., Aug. 7, 1947. (AP Photo)

Howard Hughes, center, at small table, leans foward toward the microphone as he answers a question by Sen. Homer Ferguson, left center, directly oppos...

Dr. Percy L. Julian, 48, director of the Glidden Plant Co., in Chicago, Ill., is shown working in his laboratory on Aug. 1, 1947. (AP Photo)

Dr. Percy L. Julian, right, is joined by former student Dr. Arthur Magnani to watch the progress of the manufacture of a hormone product in a tank at...

Dr. Percy Julian, of the research department at the Glidden Pain and Varnish Company, is shown in his office in Chicago, Ill., July 25, 1947. (AP Pho...

Kenneth Claiborne Royall, Secretary of War, is shown in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 1947. (AP Photo)

Jawaharlal Nehru, left, and British Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, are shown at the Viceroy's independence day party for Americans in New Delhi, Ind...

This is an exterior view of the Moorish-style house in Beverly Hills, Ca., where gangster Benjamin

Gangster Benjamin

The body of Benjamin

A coroner bends over the slain body of Benjamin

A troupe of dancers from the musical

Children and adult immigrants gather in the dining room for their noontime meal at the Detention Station on Ellis Island in New York City, June 13, 19...

The first of 133 new B-50 bomber planes ordered by the U.S. Army Air Force is rolled from the Boeing Aircraft company plant at Seattle, Wash., on June...

Children and adult immigrants detained at Ellis Island sit down to eat their noontime meal in New York City, June 12, 1947. (AP Photo)

A survivor of the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare, Jinpe Teravama retains scars after healing of burns from the bomb explosion, Hiroshima, in J...

The pace lap of the Memorial Day Indianapolis 500-mile race is underway at the Motor Speedway Track in Indianapolis, Ind., Friday, May 30, 1947. The...

This general view shows motorists arriving from the east along U.S. Interstate Highway, 99-70 or 60, as they enter the city of Los Angeles, Ca., on Ma...

Mauri Rose drives his Blue Crown Spark Plug Special across the finish line to get the checkered flag in the Memorial Day Indianapolis 500-mile race at...

Members of the Chinese Security Corps are seen at an unknown location, on May 28, 1947. (AP Photo)

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne pose on stage before their performance in the Broadway comedy

Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten, accompanied by his wife, Lady Mountbatten, inspects the ruins of buildings in Kahuta, India, a Punjab village on Ma...

This is a sectional view of the living room in the Waldorf Towers of the new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, May 5, 1947. The suite was recen...

Dr. Mohammed Fadhel Jamali, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq, is shown in New York City on May 2, 1947. (AP Photo)

Dr. Fadhil Jamali, right, chairman of the Iraq delegation to the United Nations General Assembly special Palestine session, gestures as he talks with...

Yogi Berra, left, and Charlie Keller of the New York Yankees pose at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y., April 17, 1947. (AP Photo)

Firemen and dock workers pull fire hoses to the burning French Liberty freighter Grandcamp docked at the port in Texas City, Texas, April 16, 1947. A...

Crooner Bing Crosby, right, Pittsburgh Pirates owner, is shown with Honus Wagner, Pirates Hall of Famer and coach, at an exhibition game in Pittsburgh...

Lord and Lady Mountbatten are seen with Mahatma Gandhi, center, in the garden of the Viceregal lodge in New Delhi, India, March 31, 1947. Lord Mountb...

Directors Orson Welles, left, and Charlie Chaplin lunch together at the Brown Derby in Hollywood, Ca., March 30, 1947. (AP Photo)

Cy Young returns the pen to Bill Veeck, president of the Cleveland Indians, after signing a contract, in Veeck's hand, at a banquet in honor of Cy's 8...

The vast expanse of this pack ice, which extends hundreds of miles in all directions, shows the shallow shadows cast by snow drifts and pressure ridge...

A.E. Porter, secretary to the government of India, stands before a dias on which Lord and Lady Mountbatten are seated in a ceremony after Lord Mountba...

A Piper Cub is the first airplane to land on the summit of Mt. Washington, N.H., on March 22, 1947. The aircraft sits on a snowfield atop the 6,293-f...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, wearing white naval uniform, new Viceroy of India, and his wife, Lady Edwina Mountbatten, ride in the state carriage toward th...

A barbed wire barricade divides the Muslim section, foreground, and the Hindu and Sikh quarters, top center, background, in Peshawar, northwest fronti...

Clara Bow, former film star dubbed the

U.S. President Harry S. Truman, standing at podium, addresses a joint session of Congress urging aid for Greece and Turkey in Washington, D.C., March...

U.S. President Harry S. Truman, standing at podium, addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber in Washington, D.C., March 12, 1947. P...

Jazz musician and band leader Cab Calloway is shown in the control room as he hears the playback of his first 1947 recording session with his orchestr...

U.S. President Harry S. Truman smiles as he steps along the corridor of the Capitol building approaching the House Chamber for his address to a joint...

Dr. Werner Heisenberg, 45-year-old Nobel laureate and Germany's foremost atomic energy scientist, is shown at his home in Goettingen, Germany, on Feb....

Pope Pius XII poses in the Vatican on Feb. 19, 1947. (AP Photo/Noel)

Frank Sinatra is fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff Bob Rogers as he applies for a gun permit in Los Angeles, Ca., Jan. 30, 1947. (AP Photo)

A man stands in foreground and looks across the mine dumps to the center of Johannesburg, South Africa, Jan. 17, 1947. (AP Photo/South African Railwa...

Mauri Rose sits in his Blue Crown Spark Plug Special at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway race track in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1947. Rose won the In...

Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl holds a shark fished from the ocean aboard the Kon Tiki in 1947. Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific on a balsa log raf...

Thor Heyerdahl, right, and Herman Watzinger chart the course of the six-man balsa raft expedition Kon-Tiki in Washington, D.C., Dec. 28, 1946. Heyerd...

This general view looks down Los Angeles Street at Old Chinatown in Los Angeles, Ca., on Dec. 19, 1946. The modern building with clock tower, behind...