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This section of Los Angeles known as old Chinatown, once the home and marketplace for 7,000 Asians, is shown from the intersection of Sunset Blvd. and...

Men, women, many pushing strollers, and children with balloons enjoy New York's Central Park as temperatures reach a record high 68 degrees Fahrenheit...

Orville Wright examines the wind tunnel balances in Daytona, Ohio, Dec. 1946. The instrument made possible the flight of the airplane he and his brot...

A woman demonstrates the vibratory exercise belt, which can be raised or lowered by using a T-handle, at the Mac Levy salon on Nov. 30, 1946. (AP Pho...

Glenn Davis (41), Felix

Jules Romains makes his acceptance speech before the Academie Francaise upon becoming a member of the French society of men of letters in Paris, Franc...

Radio and movie entertainer Bob Hope, part owner of the Cleveland Indians, visits Indians president Bill Veeck at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, Nov. 7, 19...

Principal defendants in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial hear the verdict at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, on Sept. 30, 1946. Seated in...

Byron White, former running back on the University of Colorado football team, is seen posing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington...

Sampans crowd the Yangtze River in China on Sept. 10, 1946. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

William Heirens stands in his cell on Sept. 5, 1946 in the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Ill., after he was sentenced to serve three consecutive life t...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, far right, and his family receive a royal welcome from his sister, Crown Princess Louise of Sweden, on a visit to Sweden in Se...

This is a general view of Philadelphia's City Hall, completed in 1901, in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 29, 1946. (AP Photo)

Puerto Rico's Gov. Jesus T. Pinero, the first Puerto Rican-born governor, is shown in New York City on Aug. 4, 1946. (AP Photo)

The largest Buddha in Japan, located near Yokosuku, is shown on Aug. 10, 1946. (AP Photo/Don Desfor)

This is a general view of the Peace Conference held in the Salle des Seances in Luxembourg Palace in Paris, France, July 29, 1946. Georges Bidault, p...

Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi of Italy is shown on July 26, 1946. (AP Photo)

The U.S. Army's Flying Wing bomber plane, built by Northrop Aircraft Corporation and known as the XB-35, takes off on its maiden voyage at the Northro...

The U.S. Army's Flying Wing XB-35 bomber plane, built by Northrop Aircraft Corp., takes off on its maiden flight at the Northrop Field on June 25, 194...

The Victory Day celebrations end with a fireworks display over the River Thames in Westminster, London, England, on June 8, 1946. The Houses of Parli...

Men stop to look at fabric for sale at an outdoor table in front of a store in New York's Lower East Side on June 1, 1946. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin)

A man examines a pair of shoes sold at an outdoor table on the sidewalk in New York's Lower East Side on June 1, 1946. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin)

A customer eats clams bought from an open pushcart peddler on Mott St. in New York's Lower East Side on June 1, 1946. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin)

Spectators sit on and around their parked cars in the infield of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to view the Indy 500-mile race in Indianapolis, India...

George Robson drives his Thorne Special across the finish line and gets the checkered flag in the Indianapolis 500-mile race to win the 30th running a...

Northrop's Flying Wing Bomber known as the XB-35 is wheeled to a runway at Hawthorne, Ca., May 22, 1946. The U.S. Army plane is undergoing its first...

A passenger is seen paying off his fare in London, May 22, 1946. The taxicar, driven by cabman Albert Wells, is about 18 years old and one of the fami...

Leaders of the 74 Nazi Germans on trial, Gen. Joseph Sepp Dietrich (11), Gen. Fritz Kramer (33) and Gen. Herman Priess (45), stand up to face members...

Trailriders negotiate a narrow path built among the pink cliffs of Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, May 6, 1946. (AP Photo/National Park Service and...

This is a view looking south from 34th Street along the tulip beds in the gardens that divide traffic on Park Avenue in New York City, May 1, 1946. P...

Ben Hogan holds his hands apart to illustrate to Herman Keiser, center, and Bobby Jones the 30-inch putt he missed on the 18th hole in his final round...

Bob

This is a general view looking north at the Bund along the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, Feb. 28, 1946. The tower in foreground is the weather si...

The metal twin engine model 18 Beechcraft plane of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, Wichita, is shown in flight on Feb. 12, 1946. Beechcraft is the fi...

His Holiness Pope Pius XII, robed in white with a scarlet cloak, is shown in Vatican City on Feb. 5, 1946. (AP Photo)

This is an aerial view of Hotel Nacional in Havana, Cuba, Feb. 1, 1946. (AP Photo)

Gen. Chou en-Lai, chief Chinese Communist Party (CCP) representative, is shown at signing of cease-fire order between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the CCP...

Charles

Robert Penn Warren, author of

This is a general view of the exterior of Hotel Nacional in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 1946. (AP Photo)

As millions of Americans mourn the death of Gen. George Patton Jr., who was killed in an automobile accident, his dog

This is a 1946 picture of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal against Nazi German war criminals. Sitting in the defendant's box in the front...

Irving Berlin, songwriter, pianist and singer, plays one of his tunes for the Women's Army Corps (WAC) at the U.S. Air Forces of the Far East headquar...

A crew, right, works to remove a drift in front of a New York Central train to enable it to reach the Terrace Station in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 16, 1945....

Some of the 60,000 young orphans of war-torn Europe are held for treatment of skin infections and lice discovered during routine medical inspection in...

An orphan receives a medical examination in Geneva, Switzerland, on Dec. 9, 1945 at the end of World War II. As guests for a 90-day period, 60,000 yo...

U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes signs agreement for $4,400,000,000 loan to Great Britain by the United States during ceremony at the State Dep...

German Wehrmacht Gen. Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad in a stockade in Aversa, Italy, on December 1, 1945. The...

Composer Irving Berlin, right, and his daughter Mary Ellin are shown at the Stork Club in New York City, Nov. 27, 1945 as they celebrate Mary Ellin's...

The aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) sails down the East River under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, Nov. 16, 1945. The carr...