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President Harry Truman (left) receives an invitation to attend the "Inner Circle" dinner to be held at the Astor Hotel, New York on March 30 from two...

Mrs. Bess Truman, wife of the President, (second from right, seated) and a number of wives of high government officials study Spanish in a class led...

Lord Halifax, left, British Ambassador to the U.S., and U.S. Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy, right, greet Winston Churchill, center, upon his arrival at...

Margaret, daughter of the President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman, is a bridesmaid at the wedding of Gloria Chavez, daughter of the Senator from New Mexico...

President Harry Truman and Dr. Lise Meitner, Austrian born atom scientist now on the faculty of Catholic University at Washington, D.C., chat at the d...

President Harry S. Truman, left, congratulates Admiral William D. Leahy, his chief of staff, at the White House, Washington, D.C., on Feb. 6, 1946 aft...

Gen. H.H. Arnold, right, Army Air Forces chief retiring in February, reports to President Harry S. Truman on his tour of South America, as he calls at...

Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister, attired in his familiar blue siren suit leaves the government suite at the Hotel National in Havana...

Winston Churchill, British Minister James Dodds and Col. Frank Clarke leaving Hotel National in car for a trip through Havana, Cuba Feb, 5, 1946, (A...

Margaret Truman, left, daughter of President Harry Truman and Mrs. Bess Truman, talks with Mrs. Stanley Miller, center, of Albuquerque, N.M., and Glo...

Composer Igor Stravinsky is shown in New York City on Feb. 2, 1946. Stravinsky was born at Oranienbaum, Russia, on June 5, 1882. He studied law at St...

Shortly after his plane, a former Flying Fortress took Winston Churchill, left, to Havana for a brief vacation visit on Feb. 2, 1946, he met Ramon Gra...

Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York, Cardinal-designate Francis J. Spellman, stands in his Cardinalate robes as he poses for pictures...

Cardinal-designate Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York, is wearing his Cardinalate robes as he poses for this cl...

Cardinal-designate Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York, poses in his Cardinalate robes at his residence at St. P...

The President HarryTruman and Mrs. Bess Truman, center, stand with Paul Wooton, right, of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and Mrs. Wooton, left, at th...

Chief Justice Harlan Stone, John Walker, chief curator of the gallery, and President Harry Truman (left to right, front), view a picture by Titian, "I...

Winston Churchill with Col. Frank Clarke at his side leaves press conference at National Hotel in Havana on Feb. 1, 1946. (AP Photo/PS)

Cuban crowd sward around Churchill's plane and car as he arrived in Havana on Feb. 1, 1946 for weeks visit. (AP Photo/PS)

B-17 with Winston Churchill's aboard warms up for trip to Havana from the army airport in Miami, Florida on Feb. 1, 1946. Mrs. Churchill may be seen a...

Introducer of Ministers Guillermo Patterson, right, escorts Winston Churchill to see President Grau in Cuban Palace in Havana on Feb. 1, 1946. Chief o...

Author Fannie Hurst is shown in New York City on Jan. 30, 1946. She was born in Hamilton, Ohio on Oct. 19, 1889, earned a BA at Washington Univ., St....

Harold E. Stassen in New York City on Jan. 30, 1946. Born: W. St. Paul, Minn., on April 13, 1907, Education: B.A., L.L.B., Uni., of Minn., Law practic...

Knife poised, Mrs. Bess Truman, wife of the president, begins cutting of the Roosevelt birthday ball cake at Uline's Arena, Washington, D.C., on Jan....

Mrs.Bess Truman, left, wife of the president and daughter Margaret Truman right, enter Washington Hotel in Washington on Jan. 30, 1946 first stop in...

President Harry S. Truman, center, holds first sheet of the new five-cent Roosevelt commemorative stamps purchased from Postmaster General Robert P. H...

President Harry Truman, at White House microphone prepares radio talk to nation in Washington on Jan. 30, 1946 as feature of Roosevelt birthday observ...

Alf M. Landon, ex-governor of Kansas and 1936 Republican presidential candidate, addressing the Kansas Day Republican Women's club in Kansas on Jan. 2...

After ten years separation, William Green, (left), head of the American Federation of Labor, talks with John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Wo...

Lt. Col. Margaret D. Craighill on Jan. 29, 1946. (AP Photo)

Lt. Col. Margaret D. Craighill in Philadelphia on Jan. 29, 1946. Born: Southport, N.C. on Oct. 16, 1893, Education: B.A. and M.S. Uni., of Wisconsin....

President Harry Truman, left, receives from Bradford Washburn of Boston, (center). Director of the New England Museum of Natural History, a piece of r...

Marshal of the Soviet Union K.E. Voroshilov, commanding general of the Russian Occupation forces in Hungary, and a member of the Allied Control Commis...

Sen. Millard Tydings (D-MD) explains his suggestion for world disarmament conference made public in senate on Jan. 28, 1946. (AP Photo/KHW)

Attending the annual luncheon for members of the Missouri state congressional delegation in the Speaker's Dining room at the Capitol on Jan. 26, 1946...

Artist Albert Sterner is shown in New York on Jan. 24, 1946. H was born in London, England, on March, 8, 1863. He was educated at the King Edwards S...

Gen. Carl A. Spaatz (above), named January 24 by President Truman as chief of the Army Air Forces to succeed Gen. H.H. Arnold, laughs as he relaxes at...

President Harry Truman talks at White House with members of the Air Force Association in Washington on Jan. 24, 1946, nucleus of an organization for a...

President Truman, left, presents a medal for exceptional services in wartime to Judge Samuel I. Rosenman (right) of New York City during a ceremony at...

Cmdr. Joseph Timothy O'Callahan, right, of Cambridge, Mass., becomes the first Navy Chaplain in history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor as...

President Harry S. Truman, center, congratulates in a five-way handshake four war heroes after decorating them with the Congressional Medal of Honor a...

Nine-year-old Cub Scout Bob Todd, right, Plymouth, Pa., bond selling champion, presents a set of book ends, made from Anthracite coal, to President Ha...

Nine-year-old Cub Scout Bob Todd (center), of Plymouth, Pa., bond selling champion, presents a set of book ends made from Anthracite coal, to Presiden...

Philip Murray, President of CIO united steel workers of America, gestures at the microphone in Pittsburgh on Jan. 21, 1946 during radio address explai...

On the steps of the former residence of the High Commissioner in Manila, P.I., where Japaese Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma is on trial as a war criminal, Ma...

Selective Service Director Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey pulled a surprise during presentation ceremonies at the White House, Washington on Jan. 21, 1946...

Representatives of each state and territory crowd the East Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 21, 1946 as President Harry Truman (facing ca...

President Harry Truman, left, pins the Selective Service Medal on F.F. Colon of Cayey, Puerto Rico, in the East Room of the White House, Washington on...

President Harry Truman, left, pins the Selective Service Medal on Arnold Schreiber of Agar, South Dakota, in the East Room of the White House, Washing...

President Harry Truman, left, shakes hands with W.A. Lambert of Holout, Miss., after awarding him the Selective Service Medal in a ceremony at the Whi...