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October 27, 1950

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PATROLS FAN OUT; Regiment of Republican 6th Division Is First to Reach the Border WAR GOES ON ELSEWHERE Fierce Opposition Is Indicated in Some Areas--Movement of Chinese Reds Denied By-Passed Communist Troops Marines Move Out From Wonsan FRONTIER REACHED BY SOUTH KOREANS Close In on Myongdangdok Resistance in West Also

By Lindesay Parrott Special To the New York Times

TOKYO, Friday, Oct. 27--South Korean Republican troops reached the Manchurian frontier on the Yalu River yesterday, completing a march of more than 350 miles, two-thirds the length of the whole Korean peninsula, since mid-September.

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Corsi Says Mayor Lets Erickson Direct Gambling From Prison Cell; Corsi Says Mayor Lets Erickson Direct Gambling From Prison Cell

By Unknown Author

charges Impellitteri grants favors to F Erickson; comments on Sampson and other Tammany aid to Impellitteri; s, Harlem, Manhattan, Queens

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Nominee for Mayor, at the White House, Says President Voiced His 'Confidence' in the Election of All Three; Truman Backs Candidacies Of Pecora, Lehman, Lynch PRESIDENT FAVORS CITY, STATE TICKET Pecora Returns to Campaign

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.The New York Times (by Bruce Hoertel)

Truman backs Lynch

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Hormone Work Wins Nobel Prize For Two Americans and a Swiss; 1950 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN MEDICINE

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.Associated Press WirephotoThe New York Times

Drs E C Kendall, P S Hench and T Reichstein win med prize for work on suprarenal cortex hormones

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4-CANDIDATE TOUR OF CITY POSTPONED; Put Off After Impellitteri Calls It Pecora Promotion Move in Race for Mayor 4-CANDIDATE TOUR OF CITY POSTPONED Happy Over His Frankness

By Thomas P. Ronan

tour postponed after Impellitteri charges pol

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Notable Births

1950Michael Driscoll, English economist and academic^[†]

Michael John Driscoll is a British economist. He was Chair of the Coalition of Modern Universities in the UK and from 1996 to 2015 was Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University in London. In 2016, he was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of Taylor's University in Malaysia.

1950Fran Lebowitz, American author^[†]

Frances Ann Lebowitz is an American author, public speaker, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Jerome Robbins, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, and the New York Dolls.

1950Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach^[†]

Július Šupler is a Slovak ice-hockey coach. Šupler has been coach of HC Dukla Trenčín and Riga 2000 and was the first coach of Slovakia national team.

1950A. N. Wilson, English journalist, historian, and author^[†]

Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and a former columnist for the London Evening Standard. He has been an occasional contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer.

Historical Context for October 27, 1950

In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people^[†]