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President Harry S. Truman, left, congratulates Sen. J. Howard McGrath (D-R.I.), on his confirmation by the Senate for the cabinet post of attorney gen...

President Harry S. Truman, left, congratulates Tom Clark after the Senate confirmed the Texan as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, Aug. 18, 1...

President Harry S. Truman receives an invitation to speak at a convention of the Air Force Reserves Association later this year, at Long Beach, Calif....

President Harry S. Truman, in white suit, front row, poses in the rear dining room of Blair House with members of his cabinet, Aug. 15, 1949. From le...

This photo shows a typical store building on the swank Hollywood Sunset Strip, Aug. 11, 1949, Los Angeles, Calif. (AP Photo/David F. Smith)

Herbert Hoover is shown at a desk in the Hoover Library on the campus of the Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., Aug. 10, 1949, after receiving...

From left to right, front row: Elpidio Quirin, president of the Philippines, and President Harry S. Truman. In rear, left to right: Miguel Elizalde,...

Jimmy Stewart, screen actor, and his socialite bride, Gloria Hatrick McLean, stride happily from church in Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 9, 1949, followin...

Former President Herbert Hoover smiles behind a big birthday cake presented to him on the Stanford University campus at Palo Alto, Calif., Aug. 9, 194...

President Elpidio Quirino, right foreground, walks with President Harry S. Truman, left foreground, wearing white suit and hat, after the president of...

Ruth Elizabeth McCormick, new head of the Washington Times-Herald, is shown in New York, Aug. 1, 1949. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

President Harry S. Truman, left, talks with Mayor Sam Wassell, seated right, of Little Rock, Ark., at the White House in Washington, July 29, 1949. St...

View of the construction site of the government-financed television and radio network of the German state of Hesse on July 28, 1949 in Frankfurt am Ma...

General view of the construction site of the government-financed television and radio network of the German state of Hesse on July 28, 1949 in Frankfu...

Oren Root, Fusion Party candidate for Manhattan borough president, is seen July 28, 1949. (AP Photo/John Lent)

From left to right: John L. Thurston, action administrator of the Federal Security Agency; President Harry S. Truman; and Walter Tschuppik, chief edi...

President Harry Truman, seated, signs bill which brings employees of Alaskan Railroad and of the Panama Canal under civil service, July 21, 1949 in Wa...

Sir Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist, is shown in New York, July 20. 1949. (AP Photo/Ed Ford)

Angela Lansbury, London-born film actress, was heard to complain that as long as she???d been in Hollywood no one had ever photographed her in a bathi...

Luis Olmo of the Brooklyn Dodgers is shown, July 12, 1949. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, bowls the first ball in a cricket match at the new recreatioin ground at Combe, Oxfordshire, on July 19, 1949, w...

Prince Birabongse of Siam watches the practice at Reims, July 16, 1949 for tomorrow's French Grand Prince from his pit. (AP Photo/Jean Aubry)

Rescuers (foreground) remove injured persons from a burning commercial airliner which crashed and burst into flames near Santa Susana pass, July 12, 1...

Hank Greenberg swings at an exhibition game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleveland Indians, July 13, 1949. (AP Photo)

Hank Greenberg swings at an exhibition game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleveland Indians, July 13, 1949. (AP Photo)

Britain's Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, throws a javelin when he visited the Outward Bound Sea School, in Wales, on July 12, 1949, watched by...

The 60-inch, long lens camera, placed in the center field bleachers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, catches this action at first base in the fi...

Sumner Welles, former undersecretary of state, sits in his cabin aboard the French liner De Grasse prior to the ship's sailing from New York, July 7,...

Lawyer Wilson Watkins Wyatt of Louisville, Kent., is shown, July 4, 1949. (AP Photo/H.B. Littell)

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Bernard M. Baruch, presidential adviser, sails from New York aboard the Cunard White Star Liner Queen Elizabeth for a European visit, June 30, 1949....

Sir Alexander Fleming, British scientist who discovered penicillin, stands on pier in New York City, following his arrival from Europe aboard the S.S....

Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 74-year-old philosopher, physician, musician, missionary and author, poses on board the Dutch liner Nieuw Amsterdam on arriving...

Top-seeded Ted Schroeder of La Crescenta, Calif., appears to defy the laws of gravity as he goes all out to make a return in his match with Vladimir C...

An asphalt storage tank shoots a billowing mountain of flame skyward at a waterfront plant of the California Refinery Co., in Perth Amboy, N.J., which...

This group of Japanese nationalists are shown as they arrive in San Francisco, June 19, 1949 from Tokyo. They will testify in the trial of Iva Toguri,...

Vic Raschi of the New York Yankees pitches to Jim Hegan in the sixth inning of the Cleveland-Yankees game, June 17, 1949 in New York (AP Photo/John Ro...

Vic Raschi of the New York Yankees pitches to Jim Hegan in the sixth inning of the Cleveland-Yankees game, June 17, 1949 in New York (AP Photo/John Ro...

Dr. Robert S. Richardson, astronomer at Mount Wilson observatory near Pasadena, Calif., is shown June 14, 1949. (AP Photo/Ellis R. Bosworth)

President Harry S. Truman sits at breakfast with his Battery D mates in Little Rock, Ark., June 11, 1949. From left to right: Fred Schmidt, secretary...

President Harry S. Truman is shown, left, as he addressed a crowd estimated at 12,000 people in War Memorial Stadium, June 11, 1949 in Little Rock, Ar...

President Harry S. Truman stands on the stage of Joseph T. Robinson auditorium in Little Rock, Ark., as he addressed the business meeting of the 35th...

President Harry Truman sits in the rear seat of an automobile with his sister, Mary Jane Truman, after he arrived in Little Rock, Ark., June 10, 1949....

Ed Gunder, AP staff artist is shown in New York with Emmett Kelly, the clown who was formerly a newspaper cartoonist, May 23, 1949. (AP Photo/Robert K...

Ed Gunder, AP staff artist, right, is shown in New York with Emmett Kelly, the clown who was formerly a newspaper cartoonist, May 23, 1949. (AP Photo/...

Eugene R. Black, new president of the World Bank, sits in the library of his home in Princeton, New Jersey, May 22, 1949. Black, who has been a member...

Paris correspondent Godfrey Anderson, left, interviews Lord Fraser, center, Britain's first sea lord, and French Admiral Robert Jaujard, right, comman...

President Eurico Gaspar Dutra of Brazil, right, and President Harry S. Truman wave to a crowd at Washington's Union Station just before the Brazilian...

President Harry S. Truman, left, talks with Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois in Washington, May 21, 1949. Stevenson called on the president at Blair H...

Andre Francois Poncet, French High Commissioner for Germany, is shown in his office in Paris, May 20, 1949. (AP Photo)