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A property in the Gracie Square section of Yorkville passed to new control yesterday after an ownership of several years when a sixstory elevator apartment house at 527-29 East Eighty-fifth Street, near Carl Schurz Park, was sold by Samuel McCrudden to a syndicate of investors.
BUSINESS is not good on Broadway. Theoretically, that's to be expected around this time of the year and doesn't come under the heading of news. What does make it significant, however, is that it is worse than anticipated.
Smoke Control Bd, aided by Prof R R Tucker, revises rules to tighten controls on fuel and heating equipment in line with Mayor O'Dwyer's order; proposals outlined
MONTREAL, July 15--Australia's Davis Cup tennis team today clinched victory over Canada in their North American Zone bestof-five series, winning the doubles match in straight sets following yesterday's two singles triumphs.
PITTSBURGH, July 15--The rule against dilatory tactics at the plate was applied against the Giants on Forties Field today by Umpire Dusty Boggess with such effect that the New Yorkers suddenly became leaderless, lost their second baseman before he had a...
1950Gary Indiana, American writer, playwright and poet (died 2024)[â ]
Gary Hoisington, known as Gary Indiana, was an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best known for his classic American true-crime trilogy, Resentment, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story, and Depraved Indifference, chronicling the less permanent state of "depraved indifference" that characterized American life at the millennium's end. In the introduction to the recently re-published edition of Three Month Fever, critic Christopher Glazek has coined the phrase 'deflationary realism' to describe Indiana's writing, in contrast to the magical realism or hysterical realism of other contemporary writing.
1950Pierre Paradis, Canadian lawyer and politician[â ]
Pierre Paradis is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He represented Brome-Missisquoi in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1980 to 2018. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Robert Bourassa, Daniel Johnson Jr. and Philippe Couillard.
1950Dennis Priestley, English darts player[â ]
Dennis Priestley is an English former professional darts player. He won two world championships, and was the first player to win both the BDO and WDC world championships, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. He was nicknamed "The Menace", after the Beano character Dennis the Menace, and reflected this by wearing red and black and using red and black flights.
1950Frances Spalding, English historian and academic[â ]
Frances Spalding is a British art historian, writer and a former editor of The Burlington Magazine.
1950Tom Terrell, American journalist and photographer (died 2007)[â ]
Thomas Gerald Terrell was an American music journalist, photographer, deejay, promoter, and NPR music reviewer. Born Thomas Gerald Terrell, and later known as Scooter, King Pleasure, and Tom T., he was a lifelong musicologist who recognized talent and trends long before they became popular, and, until his death from prostate cancer, worked to promote new acts in jazz, funk, rock, hip-hop, and world music.
1950ChaplainâMedic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.[â ]
The ChaplainâMedic massacre took place in the Korean War on July 16, 1950, on a mountain above the village of Tuman. South Korean local natives claim that it took place on a mountain above the village of Yongdam-ri, which is next to Duman-ri. Thirty unarmed, critically wounded United States Army (US) soldiers and an unarmed chaplain were murdered by members of the Korean People's Army (KPA) during the Battle of the Kum River.
1950Uruguay beats hosts Brazil 2â1 to win the World Cup in a match dubbed as the Maracanazo.[â ]
The Uruguay national football team, nicknamed La Celeste and Los CharrĂșas, have represented Uruguay in international men's football since their first international match in 1902 and is administered by the AsociaciĂłn Uruguaya de FĂștbol, the governing body of football in Uruguay, which is a founding member of CONMEBOL since 1916 and a member of FIFA since 1923. It was also a member of PFC, which was the attempt at a unified confederation of the Americas from 1946 to 1961. Uruguay's home stadium is the Estadio Centenario, and they have been coached by Marcelo Bielsa since 2023.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[â ]