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Anthony Granatelli of Chicago, sits in the new car he will drive in the Indianapolis 500 mille race on May 31, 1948. He had adopted several features...

An Izl patrol enter an Arab village in the hills at the edge of the Arab Triangle, May 24, 1948. (AP Photo/Gerald Malmed)

An Izl patrol enter an Arab village in the hills at the edge of the Arab Triangle, May 24, 1948. (AP Photo/Gerald Malmed)

Dr. Hollington K. Tong, director of Government Information office, is shown May 20, 1948. (AP Photo)

During a wrestling match in Hollywood, Gorgeous George, always the villain, crunches his shin bone into an opponent???s neck, while a partner in a tea...

Before climbing through the ropes for a wrestling match in Hollywood on May 13, 1948, Gorgeous George stops to exchange caustic remarks with a ringsid...

Arab fighters scan the hills of the Bab El Wad area on May 10, 1948. Arab and Jewish Forces clashed in a battle for control of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem...

Robert Henry Best,center, leaves court after being convicted of treason in Boston, April 16, 1948. (AP Photo/Frank C. Curtin)

This lovely lope abreast a clear canal with beautiful cherry blossoms overhead is typical of the scenery to be found on April 13, 1948 in Kyoto, Japan...

President Harry Truman signs the history-making foreign aid bill into law at White House ceremony in Washington on April 3, 1948. Looking on from lef...

While an armed Arab (right) stands guard, Christian Pilgrims kneel in what is said to have been the court of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem, scene of fir...

Christian Arabs, carrying a huge cross, reach the third station of the Cross in Jerusalem on March 26, 1948 as they retrace the path of Jesus Christ f...

Eunice Kennedy, daughter of former Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, at her desk in Justice Department on March 22, 1948 in Washington. (AP Photo)

Strip on Robert Elliott, voted National league???s most valuable player in 1947, batting in game with Detroit Tigers in Bradenton, Fla., March 18, 194...

Strip on Robert Elliott, voted National league???s most valuable player in 1947, batting in game with Detroit Tigers in Bradenton, Fla., March 18, 194...

Strip on Robert Elliott, voted National league???s most valuable player in 1947, batting in game with Detroit Tigers in Bradenton, Fla., March 18, 194...

Countess Hardinge and her daughter, the Hon. Gay Hardinge, 9, arrive in New York City, March 3, 1948, aboard the Cunard White Star Liner Queen Mary. T...

Sculptor Harvey Fite at work on uncompleted figures located on the edge of his quarry in the Catskill Mountains near Woodstock, New York on Feb. 26, 1...

Harvey Fite at work on a clay model in his quarry studio in the Catskill Mountains near Woodstock, New York on Feb. 26, 1948. (AP Photo/RAW)

A view of the studio of Sculptor Harvey Fite, which, he says, proves an ideal working place during all seasons of the year. It stands on the edge of h...

Aspiring sculptors who???d like to Chisel a bit on the high cost of stone, may well envy Harvey Fite, former actor turned sculptor, who got himself a...

A close-up of Harvey Fite inside his quarry studio near Woodstock, New York on Feb. 26, 1948, working on his figure of a sleeping camel. (AP Photo/RAW...

A view of Sculptor Harvey Fite at work inside his quarry studio which is situated in a picturesque setting of the Catskill Mountains near Woodstock, N...

Sculptor Harvey Fite relaxes in front of the great stone fireplace of his home shown Feb. 26, 1948, which he built himself with some help from Neighbo...

Queen Elizabeth, (left), accompanied by Princess Elizabeth, (second form right), and Margaret Rose, (right), leave St. Margaret???s Church in London o...

Oblivious to its palatial and imposing surroundings, feller, a five-weeks-old cocker spaniel gift to President Truman, sits disconsolately outside its...

A woman is helped aboard the two-masted ship ??sAl Tafchidunu??? off the coast of Italy near Rome, at night, on Dec. 11, 1947 as Illegal Jewish immigr...

The Italian captain of wooden, two-masted ship ??sAl Tafchidunu??? guides an infant to the outstretched arms of two Illegal Jewish immigrants for Pale...

Members of the Haganah Evacuate aged and ill from homes along the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border on Dec. 3, 1947 as violence spreads over the area as a result...

Appearing before the House Un-American activities committee in Washington on Oct. 30, 1947, Berthold Brecht (left), German-born writer tells probers h...

Even the youngsters in the Principal industry here take their business literature seriously. Here Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten absorb the latest ne...

British troops experience difficulty trying to disembark a Jewish Refugee who struggles on Gangplank leading from Transport Ocean Vigour to Hamburg, G...

British troops experience difficulty trying to disembark a Jewish Refugee who struggles on Gangplank leading from Transport Ocean Vigour to Hamburg, G...

The first 1,400 ??sExodus??? illegal Jewish immigrants began to disembark quietly from the transport Ocean Vigour at Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 8, 1947....

A group of Jews, part of the 4,400 who embarked on the Exodus 1947 for Palestine on July 11, sit in a hold of the British Transport Runnymede Park as...

A group of Jews, part of the 4,400 who embarked on the Exodus 1947 for Palestine on July 11, sit in a hold of the British Transport Runnymede Park as...

Three watchers behind canvas covering peer through slit to watch placing of ballot by voter into box of his choice, July 18, 1947. Close-up of watcher...

Queen Elizabeth (left) and Princess Elizabeth (right) walk across a field at Epsom, Surrey, England on June 6, 1947, while attending the 165th renewal...

Queen Elizabeth (left) and Princess Elizabeth (right) walk across a field at Epsom, Surrey, England on June 6, 1947, while attending the 165th renewal...

Byron Nelson, left, and Bing Crosby, on fairway at Hyde Park Country Club, Cincinnati on June 6, 1947 as they played in golf exhibition for National c...

Jackie Robinson shown April 11, 1947 in Montreal uniform on left and Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. (AP Photo)

Italian screen-writing team nominated to win the 1946 Academy Award ???Oscar??? for the best film story, Federico Fellini and Sergio Amidei authors of...

Italian screen-writing team nominated to win the 1946 Academy Award ???Oscar??? for the best film story, Federico Fellini and Sergio Amidei authors of...

Kenilworth, the 50-room English Renaissance Estate formerly owned by the late George Dupont Pratt, son of a founder of the Standard Oil Company at Gle...

Owner George Halas of the NFL champions Chicago Bears, left, and Curley Lambeau , coach of the rival Green Bay Packers, find something to laugh about...

Contestants sport number cards on their backs as they waltz before the judges in Japan, Jan. 18, 1947. (AP Photo)

Owner-Coach George Halas (left) of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League hands a pen to Bob Fenimore, Oklahoma A & M halfback, to sign a t...

Attorney General Tom Clark greets Eunice M. Kennedy in Washington, Jan. 16, 1947 as he announces her appointment as executive secretary for the activi...

Barbara McBride teaches Russian-style Korobotchka dance to her Japanese students in Tokyo at the YWCA, once a week as seen here, Dec. 29, 1946. (AP Ph...

George Halas, left, owner and coach of the NFL for 1946, the Chicago Bears, talks shop with Charles Bidwell, Chicago Cardinal owner, during a recess o...