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SINCE most of the current crop of first-nighters, critics included, never have had the opportunity to develop the stamina of their forerunners--this...
Playing in a sea of mud, a driving rain and winds of near hurricane force, Fordham's Rams yesterday met their old rivals, the N.Y.U. Violets, for the twentyeighth time and beat them, 13--0, before 1,500 fans at the Polo Grounds.
Wilmot Ridge, Inc., sold to Joseph Liebowitz, builder, a tract of twenty-eight and one-half acres on Wilmot Road between White
Fifteen hundred families living in bungalows along the South Shore of Staten Island were evacuated yesterday as high seas rolled inland for half a mile during the worst storm in the memory of island residents.
1950Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer (born 1867)[†]
Hedwig Courths-Mahler, née Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler was a German writer of formula fiction romantic novels. She used the pseudonyms Relham, H. Brand, Gonda Haack and Rose Bernd.
1950Korean War: Communist Chinese troops launch a massive counterattack (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir) against United Nations and South Korean forces.[†]
The Korean War was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations Command (UNC) led by the United States. The conflict was one of the first major proxy wars of the Cold War. Fighting ended in 1953 with an armistice but no peace treaty, leading to the ongoing Korean conflict.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]