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big cos order indus execs to hold line against wartime inflation
Manager Eddie Sawyer should have tossed a champagne party for Bad Bill Nicholson, another of his older Whiz Kids, last night-- and maybe he did so. For Bill gave his genial boss the nicest fifteenth wedding anniversary present he could get, undisputed possession of first place in the National League.
BOSTON, July 8--Lanky Bob Chipman stood the Giants on their heads tonight before 21,885 admiring fans as he pitched the Braves to a 4-to-2 victory.
Pisarra reptd able to testify before grand jury; ordered to do so
EVERY other week, or so it seems, someone turns up an old play, novel, or what have you, on which he or she figures a musical can be based. In fact, said the departmental trend spotter, climbing down from the watch tower, there apparently are more musical adaptations being geared for the season ahead ...
1950Amal ibn Idris al-Alami, Moroccan physician and neurosurgeon[†]
Amal El Alami is a Moroccan physician, neurosurgeon and writer. He was born at Casablanca, the quartier Habous, in a nationalist family linked to the Istiqlal Party.
1950Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis player and sailor[†]
Adriano Panatta is a retired Italian professional tennis player. He won the French Open in 1976, becoming the first Italian man in the Open Era to win a major singles title. Panatta was also the only player ever to defeat Björn Borg at Roland Garros, doing so twice.
1950Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 4th President of Ukraine[†]
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a former Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2006 to 2010. Yanukovych was removed from the presidency during the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, which followed months of protests against him. Since then, he has lived in exile in Russia.
1950Moisés Canelo, Honduran singer-songwriter (died 2024)[†]
Moisés Canelo, known by the pseudonym of Moisés Canelas Withol, was a Honduran singer and songwriter of international recognition.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]