AP Historical Hard Drive 2003

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, second from left , later Queen Elizabeth II, and members of her family are escorted to Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, by Princ...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, and two other bridesmaids wait for the King and Queen to rejoin them in the bridal procession...

James M. Cain, author and screenwriter, is shown on Oct. 17, 1946. (AP Photo)

Averell Harriman, the new United States Secretary of Commerce, poses at his desk immediately after being sworn into office, in Washington, D.C., on Oc...

With his infamous left hook, former World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis delivers a knockout punch to a dummy representing venereal disease, on Octobe...

Some of Poland's thousands of orphan children at the Catholic Orphanage in Ludlin, Sept. 11, 1946, where they are being cared for by the Polish Red Cr...

Kurt Russell, 12-year-old Giants fan and star of the TV series

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, enjoys a joke with her father King George VI, in the grounds of the Royal Lodge, Windsor, Engl...

Children crowd onto seesaws in a Philadelphia playground on Aug. 14, 1946. (AP Photo)

Henry Pu-Yi, last emperor of China, arrives in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1946. The former emperor, who is under house arrest in the Soviet Union, is b...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, arrives at the pavillion for the ceremony of the crowning of the Bard at Mountain Ash, Glamorg...

Actress Janis Paige arrives for the Hollywood premiere of the movie

British Attorney General Hartley William Shawcross presents his final plea before the Allied Military Tribunal on July 28, 1946 at Nuremberg, Germany....

Firefighters stand amid the burning wreckage of the new XF-11 plane in which American industrialist and aviator Howard Hughes crashed into a house at...

American industrialist and aviator Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of his new XF-11 plane, which was built in conjunction with the U.S. Army Air For...

The statue of Franz Josef on horseback, left, stands intact near the Vienna State Opera House, which suffered damages after a bombing in World War II,...

Victoria Cabs are parked at the Fifth Avenue-59th Street entrance to Central Park in New York City at four a.m. on June 20, 1946. (AP Photo)

The intersection of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City is seen at 3:30 a.m. on June 20, 1946. At extreme right is the stone fence borderin...

Actress Celeste Holm is seen on June 10, 1946, as she adjusts her mesh stockings in front of a rehearsal mirror on the set of her screen debut. (AP Ph...

Comedian Red Skelton is surrounded by clowns of the Clyde Beatty Circus, giving him a helping hand as he puts on a big nose, in Los Angeles, Calif., i...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, dances with Captain Humphreys at the Navy League Ball at the Dorchester Hotel, London, May 28,...

Ethel Merman is Annie Oakley, famed lady sharpshooter, in the premiere of the Broadway musical comedy

Ethel Merman, in the role of lady sharpshooter Annie Oakley, and Ray Middleton, in the role of Frank Butler, are seen in the original production of th...

An unknown hobo is shown riding underneath a train as he makes his way across America, in this May 9, 1946 photo. (AP Photo)

A 46-foot, 14-ton captured German V-2 rocket is launched during a test firing at White Sands Proving Grounds, near Las Cruces, New Mexico, in May 1946...

Oscar Hammerstein II, left, and Richard Rodgers cut a cake in celebration of the first and third birthdays of their shows

This view shows push cart vendors on Mott Street in New York's Lower East Side on April 19, 1946. (AP Photo)

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, at right of group on platform, later Queen Elizabeth II, performs the launching ceremony of the new aircraft carrier H.M...

Rhode Island center Ernie Calverley is carried by Coach Frank Keaney, left, and Al Palmieri, right, for a victory ride in the dressing room at Madison...

This is a March 13, 1946 view of New York Public Library, after the building's exterior was cleaned for the first time since it was built in 1905. (A...

The Danube canal in Vienna, Austria, is shown on March 12, 1946. The canal was damaged during fighting between the Russians and Germans in 1945. Rep...

The Danube canal in Vienna, Austria, damaged during fighting between the Russians and Germans in 1945, is shown on March 12, 1946. Repair efforts are...

The Danube canal in Vienna, Austria, is shown on March 12, 1946. Repair efforts are being made to restore the bridges and the canal that is crowded w...

The Danube canal in Vienna, Austria, is shown on March 12, 1946. The canal and its environs were damaged during fighting between the Russians and Ger...

A debris-filled street in post World War II Vienna, Austria, is shown on March 12, 1946. The clean-up efforts have been complicated by the fact that...

The Touro Synagogue at Newport, R.I., is shown on March 9, 1946. The synagogue, dedicated in 1763, has been designated a national historic site. (AP...

Dancer Sono Osato, center, carries a picket sign as she joins members and supporters of the American Committee for Spanish Freedom and the Veterans of...

Olin Mumford, right, 16-year-old Atlanta, Ga., High School student, tests his radio set built in a helmet, complete with undersling batteries and an a...

Elizabeth M. Gilmor, who writes a column on advice to the lovelorn under the pseudonym

The 122-mile-long Florida Overseas Highway, seen here on January 7, 1946, ties together the numerous coral reefs that form the Florida Keys, linking t...

The 122-mile-long Florida Overseas Highway, seen here on January 7, 1946, ties together the numerous coral reefs that form the Florida Keys, linking t...

Members of the Board of the newly organized Export-Import Bank holding first meeting at Washington, D.C. January 3, 1946. They are (L to R) Front Row...

Scientist Dr. Luis Walter Alvarez examines a radio transmitter used in radar Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) system built to help guide airplanes thr...

General Chou En-Lai, chief representative of the Chinese Communist Party with the Chinese Nationalist Party government, is seen as he speaks at the Pe...

British writer Malcolm Lowry, author of

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John F. Kennedy, left, is shown with his brother, Robert Kennedy, and his dog, Mo, in Hyannis Port, Ma., in 1946. John Kennedy, 29, former war corres...

This 1946 photo shows clothes drying from Mulberry Street apartments in the backyards in New York City. (AP Photo)

This overhead view shows a model of the Statue of Liberty, foreground, facing north towards Duffys square in New York's Times Square on Dec. 19, 1945....

General George C. Marshall, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff, is seen as he answers questions from the Congressional Pearl Harbor Committee, in Washing...