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dirs bd approves Flagstad return in Bing recommendations for '50-51 season; subscription system to be divided in two; Bing and officials to conf with Traubel
controversy over renewal of tech expert L B Reid contract
City Council bars 13 touring members of Japanese Diet from observing session; reaction; group welcomed to city by Mayor Hynes
Union Pacific to lay off 184
D E Lilienthal silent
1950Denise Fleming, American author and illustrator[†]
Denise K. Fleming is an American creator of children's picture books. She was born in Toledo, Ohio. She graduated in illustration from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1950Alexander Korzhakov, Russian general and bodyguard[†]
Alexander Vasilyevich Korzhakov is a Russian former KGB general who served as Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard, confidant, and adviser for eleven years. He was the head of the Presidential Security Service (PSB) from 1991 to 1996, State Duma deputy from 1997 to 2011, and retired Lieutenant-general. Korzhakov had been Yeltsin's bodyguard since 1985, and on 19 August 1991, he stood next to his boss on top of a tank during Yeltsin's historic speech.
1950Janice Rebibo, American-Israeli author and poet (died 2015)[†]
Janice Rebibo was an American-born Israeli poet who began writing in Hebrew in the mid-1980s.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]