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First Nisei war dead is returned to the Los Angeles area. Photograph was made at station as flag-draped casket was taken past fallen hero's mother, Mrs. Tom Gushiken, and other relatives. 'Picture set title,' Monteverde says, 'is because in America,…

Sir Osbert and Edith Sitwell, brother and sister, as they appeared during their November visit in New York. Senior members of 'England's most celebrated living literary family,' Edith, 61, is a candidate to succeed John Masefield as poet laureate,…

Babe Ruth visited the Roosevelt School for Exceptional Children, Miami, february 27, when he attended the Southern District Easter Seal campaign of the Florida Association for Crippled Children and Adults. His call on the underprivileged, and the…

Babe Ruth leans on a bat with cap in hand, June 13, while thousands cheer him in Yankee Stadium, New York. Ruth wears his famed NO.3 uniform for the last time, never again to be worn by any Yankee player, but to be retired permanently in Baseball's…

Orchard and English home.

House sitting in a valley. It is winter and everything is covered with snow.

Woman showing man some second hand clothing.

Nine year old Tony Cassarino, rescued in 59th street lake after falling through ice.

Marooned eight hours on drifting ice in Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn, this dog was the object of an air-sea rescue attempt. After Coast Guard helicopter, ASPCA agents and firemen had failed, these three civilians manned a rowboat--and succeeded.

Approximately 300,000 members of the Catholic Action Party, bearing torches and banners, gathered on the steps of the Basilica (St. Peter's Square, Rome) at a midnight mass honoring the party's eighth anniversary.