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Plans for selection of "Unknown Amer' described
Gov Dewey scores disunity
Econ Advisers Council rept to Cong on consumer earnings and spending, 1st qr
Employes strike, La Paz; Govt calls strike illegal
Dr J Velarde-Thome describes Govt-WHO-ICEF 2-yr program to eradicate diseases; entire population to get penicillin
1950Ron Perlman, American actor[†]
Ronald N. Perlman is an American actor. His credits include the roles of Amoukar in Quest for Fire (1981), Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986), Vincent in the television series Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, One in The City of Lost Children (1995), Johner in Alien Resurrection (1997), Koulikov in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Hellboy in both Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Clay Morrow in the television series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2013), Nino in Drive (2011) and Benedict Drask in Don't Look Up (2021). As a frequent collaborator of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, he has had roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1992), Blade II (2002), Pacific Rim (2013), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Pinocchio (2022).
1950Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2021)[†]
Thomas Walter Raudonikis was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played 40 International games and World Cup games as Australia representative halfback and captained his country in two matches of the 1973 Kangaroo tour.
1950William Sadler, American actor[†]
William Thomas Sadler is an American actor. He began his career in various Broadway productions including Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues (1985).
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]