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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.

G.W. McLaurin is the first Negro student to be admitted to the University of Oklahoma. The only condition of admittance was that he be segregated from white students. Reluctant to admit anything unusual was taking place, Mr. McLaurin finally agreed…

Two men sitting in a cell. One man is holding his head while the other one looks on.

This picture, July 26, prefaced Life's article 'Candidate Truman Comes Out Fighting'. It was taken during an early morning (1,45) lull in the stormy convention. President Truman and Alben Barkley, vice presidential candidate, are introduced by tired…

President Harry S. Truman shook hands with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, when the two presidential candidates met March 17 to review New York's traditional St. Patrick's Day Parade. Top-hatted John J. Shehan, center, was chairman of the parade committee.

While Alden Brown and John Puslis, Daily News Photographers were taking pictures of birds at Brookfield zoo, Mr. Brown made a discovery, When he made a face at the shoebill stork, Mr. Stork would repay him in kind. Striking this pose, Brown summoned…

James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians, sounds a few notes March 18, after signing a three-year contract with radio networks. The trumpet was a gift from Frank E. Mullen, vice president of NBC. Lederhandler took a front…

The two children were chosen king and queen of the El Monte, Calif., baby pageant. The differences in their ages brought up a problem of posing for Mr. Wallace, who had been assigned to the story. Equal to the occasion, however, he turned out this…

Back of woman modeling bathing suit with young girl standing next to her in panties.

Maryland conservation laws prohibit use of power boats for oyster dredging. As a result these picturesque sailing vessels, many nearly a century old, have been preserved.