AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Tse-ven Soong, millionaire brother of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, has quit the Kuomintang - China???s Nationalist ruling party- rather than return to Form...

Conrad Hilton Jr., son of the hotel owner, and his bride, screen actress Elizabeth Taylor, stand on a deck of the liner Queen Mary in New York City pr...

Mother???s Day was celebrated on May 14, 1950 by honeymooners Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad (Nick) Hilton, Jr., when they returned from Pebble Beach, Ca...

Joan Fontaine attends preview of movie with Charles Feldman, producer of ??sGlass Menagerie??? shown May 12, 1950. (AP Photo/FF)

Hundreds of miles of roads and ??sjeep tracks??? have been built in the New Territories, lease area adjacent to Hong Kong and Kowloon, for defense pur...

An infallible sign of spring is the appearance of chess and checker players in the parks, April 18, 1950, New York. These earnest chess players are u...

During a dance marathon, the best boogie-woogie couple puts on a special show for a cash premium, March 15, 1950, Berlin, Germany. Fifteen young coupl...

Mrs. Robert A. Vogeler (right), discusses the sentencing of her husband to 15 years in prison by a court in Hungary, with her sister Pia Eykens, of Gh...

Standing rigidly as they await Judge Vilmos Olthy???s announcement of their sentence in the Budapest Espionage trial on Feb. 21, 1950 are (left to rig...

Enrico Fermi (left), nuclear physicist who built the first atomic pile, receives the meritorious service award of the Newark, N.J., Columbia Civic Clu...

Shown in photo is Sherman White, Long Island University Basketball player shown Feb. 9, 1950. (AP Photo)

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (center), followed by reporters, leaves capitol hearing on Feb. 6, 1950 in Washington before joint atomic energy committe...

A full-fledged male dancer at the male taxi-dancehall in Osaka,Japan saunters over to some women customers and asks them if they want to dance, Feb. 2...

A long line of applicants for male dancers await their turn outside the Kabuki Taxi-dancehall, Feb. 2, 1950 in Osaka, Japan, for examinations. The Kab...

Elizabeth Taylor of the movies is the center of attention as she chats with a couple of girl friends just before they received graduation diplomas at...

Fritz Kreisler, above, one of the world???s greatest living violinists, who will celebrate his 75th birthday on February 2, He achieved a notable arti...

Disable Nationalist soldiers who were allowed to enter Hong Kong on Jan. 23, 1950, are shown visiting the office of the former Nationalist Commissione...

Byron Nelson of Roanoke, Texas, sinks an 8-foot putt for a bogey on the 8th green while playing in the Bing Crosby Pro-Amateur Golf Tournament on Jan....

Carrying a candle and a cross, Pope Pius XII crosses the threshold of St. Peter???s Basilica in Vatican City, Dec. 24, 1949, during ceremonies opening...

A woman attendant gives the girl dancer a stimulant during a dance marathon, Nov. 1, 1949, Berlin, Germany. Crowds go nightly to watch the young coupl...

Sammy Baugh???s son, Todd (left), eight, and David, six watch their dad in action ring a practice scrimmage of the Redskins Griffith Stadium, Washingt...

Elizabeth Taylor curls Keenan Wynn???s mustache in the studio commissary, in Hollywood, Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 1949, during a time out from filming o...

The Virginia reel, a favorite American folk dance, is something new for the Japanese, dancing in Hibiya Park, Tokyo, Oct. 18, 1949. The music is ??sPa...

The Virginia reel, a favorite American folk dance, is something new for the Japanese, dancing in Hibiya Park, Tokyo, Oct. 18, 1949. The music is ??sPa...

American Sculptor Harvey Fite, professor of sculpture at Bard College in New York, who is in Rome for an exposition of his works, and Italian actress...

American Sculptor Harvey Fite, professor of sculpture at Bard College in New York, who is in Rome for an exposition of his works, and Italian actress...

AP Photographers John Lindsay, camera in hand, steps out onto top of Yankee Dugout at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, on Oct. 9, 1949 to jump on the field a...

Young actress Phyllis Kirk, of New York attended premiere of Roseanna McCoy??? with Barry Nelson in Hollywood RKO Theatre on Sept. 22, 1949. (AP Photo...

Captain Charles Yeager, center, of Hamlin, W.Va., the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound, receives the Gold Medal of the Federation Aeron...

Don Newcombe, Dodger's Ace righthander in pose before game with Phils at Shibe Park, August 9, 1949. (AP Photo)

The three survivors of six men who raised that historic flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, are back in Marine uniforms as they help make a Hollywood ver...

Queen Elizabeth (front) and Princess Margaret Rose (following the Queen) arrive at St. Peter???s Church, Eaton Square, London on July 20, 1949, to att...

Men of the 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment, disembark form the British troop ship Empire Halladale at Hong Kong, on June 14, 1949. They w...

Queen Elizabeth (left) and Princess Margaret Rose ride in open carriage as they leave Buckingham Palace on June 9, 1949 in London, on their way to the...

Nationalist prisoners march to stockade outside of Woosung, Shanghai, China, May 31, 1949 after collapse of nationalist resistance. Armed soldiers are...

Bill Holland gets a big hug and a kiss from his girl friend, Ruth Dannie, after he drove his Blue Crown Special to victory on May 30, 1949 in the 500-...

Ruth Dannie, smiles happily as she holds the hand of her friend, Bill Holland, in the garage at the Indianapolis Speedway, May 30, 1949 after Holland...

Lou Moore whose car won for the third consecutive year in the 500 mile Memorial Day race at the Indianapolis Speedway on May 30, 1949 is flanked by hi...

Shown in photo is view of Yankee Stadium in New York on May 19, 1949. (AP Photo)

Birth of German Federal Republic --- The constitutional convention in Bonn laid the foundations for the first German government since Hitlerism by ado...

Birth of German Federal Republic --- The constitutional convention in Bonn laid the foundations for the first German government since Hitlerism by ado...

Birth of German Federal Republic --- The constitutional convention in Bonn laid the foundations for the first German government since Hitlerism by ado...

Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, leader of the American delegation to the Congress of Partisans of Peace, is filmed in close closeup at the session at the Salle Pl...

Shown in photo from left to right are Ivan D. Rujasnky, interpreter; Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer and P.A. Pavlenko, motion picture director...

Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer waits his turn at airlines counter. Behind him is M.E. Chiaurely one of the party of Russians attending recent p...

Dmitri Shostakovich (second from left), Russian composer and other delegates to the recent Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, prepare...

Unidentified drawing of famed Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich shown April 2, 1949. (AP Photo)

Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer-member of the Soviet delegation to the Cultural and Scientific conference for World Peace, plays the second move...

Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (left) stands on a platform on March 27, 1949 at Madison Square Garden in New York, as he is introduced at the cl...

Dmitri Shostakovich (third from left), Russian composer, leans forward in his chair and listens intently to a speaker at the keynote session in Carneg...