Roy A. Roberts, president of the <i>Kansas City Star</i>, USSR Ambassaoor Mikhail Menshikov, and <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> executive editor Milburn Pete Akers, searching the cloudy Chicago sky for a glimpse of Sputnik 3 on the evening of May 17, 1958.  Location: Tavern Club, 333 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois, USA.
(Akers would later become president of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Shimer_College" title="Shimer College">Shimer College</a>.)
Sun-Times photographer William Knefel
1958-05-18
Chicago Sun-Times 1958-05-18 (original photo in possession of uploader)