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Curt Simmons, Philadelphia Phillies' grabed the ball of Giants bat, still rolling on his back. Simmons stopped the New Yorkers with four hits as the P...

Del Ennis Philadelphia Phillies outfielder is tagged out by Wes Westrum, New York Giants' catcher, in the fifth inning of a game won by the Phils 6-5...

Theatrical director Joshua Logan and his wife Nedda sail for London on the Queen Elizabeth, July 1, 1950. Logan is the director of

Actress Elizabeth Taylor is shown on her arrival from Paris to London, June 10, 1950, in her room at the Savoy Hotel. (AP Photo)

British Army drivers who have volunteered for jungle patrol work in the Anti-Bandit month opening Feb.27, 1950, as they set off from Kuala Lampur, Ma...

Nationalist troops on their way to the front shown as they passed through the drizzly rainfall on Christmas Day, their passing made little impression...

AP correspondent Seymour Topping, China correspondent in Nanking, Nov. 11, 1949. Topping went on to a distinguished career with The New York Times and...

Representatives of the National Basketball League and Basketball Association of America, shake hands after agreeing to a merger of the two circuits in...

John D. Rockefeller III, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Colonial Williamsburg Inc., and chairman of the Board of Directors of Williamsburg Resto...

This is a close up of a Barracuda caught by George Witmor of St. Augustine, June 7, 1949. (AP Photo)

San Francisco is resting comfortable on June 5, 1949, following the hottest June 4th in the citys history an uncomfortable 92 degrees as turned on its...

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An hour after the month long strike against the New York Stock Exchange had ended on April 29, 1949, the floor of the exchange presented this busy sce...

This picture shows how industrial smoke from the Donora zinc works of the American Steel and Wire Co., on April 18, 1949 in Donora, blew across the Mo...

Smoke and fog from stacks of the American Steel and Wire Co' s zinc works, smog that killed more than 20 persons. While zinc works runs at full capaci...

Traffic fills the streets of Nanking on Feb. 22, 1949, as civilians move southward and tanks of the nationalist army move north from the former capita...

Celeste Holm, dressed as a nun for her part in a New Hollywood film on Feb. 11, 1949, assists Pat Mills in filling the candy vending machine outside t...

NY Bulldogs Owner Ted Collins, left, Coach Charles Ewart and NFL Commissioner Bert Bell, right, pose at a Manhattan restaurant, Toots Shor's, Feb. 9,...

The unidentified blind Chinese woman is one of the victims of the civil war. She is shown on Avenue Edward VII near the Bund in Shanghai on Jan. 28, 1...

Nationalist troops passing through Shanghai on Jan. 28, 1949, enroute to South China, gather outside a building formerly occupied by U.S. Army and Mar...

Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to Britain; Mrs. John C. Clark, Mrs. Rose Kennedy and John C. Clark, president of Hialeah Park on Jan. 17, 1...

Ted Collins of the Boston Yanks, left, with Dan Reeves of Los Angeles, talk at a meeting of the National Football League, Dec. 21, 1948, Philadelphia,...

Nationalist soldiers leave the Pukow Railroad station, across the Yangtze River from Nanking on Dec. 13, 1948, on their way to reinforce the governmen...

Two Chinese Nationalist soldiers hold a position during the battle for the city of Suchow on Dec. 4, 1948, 211 miles northwest of the capital city of...

Well wrapped against London's densest Fog for years, five year old Alvin Davis, and his nine year old sister Joyce of London walk from their train at...

Men of the 1st Sea forth Highlanders, the Devonshire Regiment, the Gurkhas, the Royal Artillery, the Singapore police and the 4th Ferret Group took pa...

In the study of her home in Hollywood, Calif., Anna Roosevelt Boettiger late President Roosevelt's daughter, prepared a script for hew new radio progr...

Soldiers traveling on Shanghai-Nanking railway with their baggage and piles of 'Live' ammunition pass in front of the main entrance to North Station i...

Aerial view Donora, Pennsylvania, where fatal fog killed 18 persons since Friday night. Mills surrounding town belong to American Steel And Wire Co.,...

Two unidentified victims of low-hanging smog are treated on Oct. 30, 1948 at Charleroi-Monessen hospital in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Steel Grill (center) ad...

A nurse (unidentified) administers oxygen to Mrs. Frieda Van Kirk, 66, on Oct. 30, 1948 in Donora. PA. she was rushed to emergency hospital after bein...

William (Bill) Dickey back with the Yanks looks over pictures of champion Yankees, Oct. 27, 1948, that he played with in 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939. (...

Al Jolson dons black-face makeup again he said for the first time in 21 years before appearing in the Friars Frolic in Los Angeles on Oct 23, 1948. He...

Actress Beatrice Lillie holds a bottle preparatory to christening one of two $2,000,000 20th century limited trains at ceremony, Sept. 15, 1948 in New...

Actor Robert Mitchum (left) and Robin Ford (right) a real estate agent; sit in Los Angeles (Calif.) County jail on Sept. 1, 1948, after their arrest w...

U.S. Army officers (foreground) hold a street conference with two Russian officers (background) near the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, on August 21, 1948...

Members of the Canadian Olympic team march past the stand at Wembley Stadium in London, July 29, 1948, during opening ceremonies for the Summer Olympi...

John Mark of Cambridge University, a member of the British Oluympic team, carries the Olympic torch around the arena of London's Wembley Stadium at th...

Sammy Lee, member of the United States Olympic Diving Team, glides from the top of the diving tower during training at the Empire Pool in Wembley, Jul...

Five youthful admirers of N.Y. Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio invade his territory for autographs in the 5th inning of the second game of the New Yor...

The caisson bearing the body of General of the Armies John J. Pershing arrives at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, July...

The bier of Gen. John Pershing on a horse drawn caisson approaches Arlington National Cemetery, July 19, 1948. The Memorial Bridge and the Lincoln Mem...

Professor of Research Pediatrics Dr. Albert Sabin, of the College of Medicine and Childrens Research Foundation, University of Cincinnati, poses, July...

Diver Sammy Lee poses during Olympic trials, July 11, 1948, Detroit, Mich. (AP Photo/Preston Stroup)

Diver Sammy Lee in action during Olympic trials, July 9, 1948, Detroit, Mich. (AP Photo/Preston Stroup)

Hundreds of rail cars loaded with wheat, part of 4,578 cars which poured seven and one-half million bushels of wheat into Kansas City, MO., over the J...

Theatrical director Joshua Logan and his wife Nedda are shown as they arrived in New York aboard the Queen Mary, July 7, 1948. (AP Photo)

Charles E. Yeager, 25, has flown the Air Force research plane XS-1

Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Danny Murtaugh is safe at third base as the ball goes through Jackie Robinson's legs in the sixth inning during their gam...

Little Willie Wells, right, sits in lap of papa, Big Willie Wells, June 5, 1948. (AP Photo)