EVB2924495: Senate Public Works Subcommittee hearings on Pres. Eisenhower's interstate road building program. The program appeared headed for bumpy going as some key Democrats push for their own bill. At left is Sen. Albert Gore (D. Tenn.), subcommittee chairman who is the main author of the bill favored by the Democrats. In center is Felix V. DuPont (center), special consultant to Commerce Sec. Weeks, and C.D. Curtis, Commissioner of Roads (right). - / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924504: Singer Marianne Faithful at Heathrow Airport after arriving from Dublin, June 26, 1970. She wears a newly fashionable menswear suit with a maxi skirt and a snake skin coat. On June 24, it was announced that she plans to marry a British peer. Lord Rossmore, a 39 year old architectural photographer. - / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925166: Fulton J. Sheen following a private audience Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, March 17, 1971. Sheen was a celebrated radio and television priest from 1930 to mid-1960s until a dispute with Cardinal Spellman over money. Subsequently, his television work was discouraged, his leadership at the Society for the Propagation of the Faith was terminated, and he was reassigned to Rochester, New York / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925169: Henry Stimson, U.S. Sec. of State, spoke at the London Naval Conference of 1930. It was the third in a series of five meetings limiting the size of the worlds largest navies. Behind Stimson, was Charles Dawes, U.S. Ambassador Britain. Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister, at extreme right / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925235: Sen. J. William Fulbright was Chrm. of the Foreign Relations Committee from 1959 to 1974. He was the first major politician to oppose the Vietnam War with his 1966 book, 'The Arrogance of Power.' Photo shows Fulbright on ABC-TV's 'Issues and Answers' program, June 22, 1969 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925291: Legendary movie director D. W. Griffith broadcasting, 'D. W. Griffith's Hollywood.' c. 1930. The NBC radio program was a review of his life and history of Hollywood. The master silent movie director of the 1910s and early 1920s, worked on few films after 1925. In 1936, he was given a special Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925358: Director Karl Freund testing the light conditions on the set of THE GOOD EARTH, near Hollywood. Jan. 21, 1937. Some of the film shot in China was lost and had to be re-filmed in the US. At left is Hop Wing, a member of the cast. Freund won the Best Cinematography Oscar for his filming of THE GOOD EARTH / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925574: Lin Hui-Ching of Communist China at the 31st World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan. April 7, 1971. The Chinese team dominated the tournament, their first participation after a six-year absence due to the 'Cultural Revolution'. This international competition marked the end of Red China's self imposed isolation. Lin's opponent is Ilona Vostova of Czechoslovakia / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925577: Sol Hurok, impresario who managed the international performances and legendary artists. March 1953. Among his clients were: Feodor Chaliapin, Van Cliburn, Isadora Duncan, Margot Fonteyn, Anna Pavlova, Andrés Segovia, Mstislav Rostropovich, Arthur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, and Marian Anderson / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925633: Kay Summersby with her World War II memorabilia, including autographed photos of Winston Churchill, George Marshall, Franklin Roosevelt and a framed letter from General Eisenhower, a ribboned medal, and the unframed photo of Gen. Omar Bradley she is holding. Publicity photo for her 1948 memoir, 'Eisenhower Was My Boss.' / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925619: Stephen Zweig, Jewish Austrian writer, was international popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Two of his books were made into films. BEWARE OF PITY, was made in 1946 starring Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven and Cedric Hardwicke; and LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, 1948, with Louis Jourdan, Joan Fontaine, and Marcel Journet / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925963: Pearl Mesta political hostess gave a party in Chicago during the Democratic Convention. Aug. 14, 1956. Pearl Mesta laughs heartily when former President Truman, who appointed her Ambassador to Luxembourg, asked for her name. She was portrayed by Ethel Merman in the 1950 Irving Berlin Broadway musical comedy and the 1953 film, CALL ME MADAME / Bridgeman Images