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SK 3d Corps pushes back NKs NE of Chunchon
2.8-in snowfall; temperature drops to 13.6; icy rds slow traffic; rail service delayed; snow scenes illus
budget balance aim to be stressed in Gov message to Legis
F S Weaver apptd deputy comr
Lie says UN must not give up even if stand risks war with China, radio s
1950Haris Alexiou, Greek singer-songwriter[†]
Haris Alexiou is a Greek singer whose career has spanned over 5 decades. She is one of the most popular singers in Greece. She has worked with important Greek songwriters and composers, has performed at top musical theatres all over the world, and has received several awards. She has recorded over thirty albums and has been featured on albums of other musicians. On 14th March 2010, Alpha TV ranked Alexiou as the first top-certified female artist in Greece in the phonographic era. She is the highest selling Greek female artist and third overall, behind George Dalaras and Yiannis Parios. Eight of her personal albums released between 1977 and 2003 have totaled 1.5 million sales, the only Greek female artist to do so.
1950Roberto Bettega, Italian footballer and manager[†]
Roberto Bettega is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward.
1950Terry Bozzio, American drummer and songwriter[†]
Terry John Bozzio is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons, U.K., and Frank Zappa. He has been featured on nine solo or collaborative albums, 26 albums with Zappa and seven albums with Missing Persons. Bozzio has been a prolific sideman, playing on numerous releases by other artists since the mid-1970s. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1997.
1950Max Beckmann, German-American painter and sculptor (born 1884)[†]
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity, an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. Even when dealing with light subject matter like circus performers, Beckmann often had an undercurrent of moodiness or unease in his works. By the 1930s, his work became more explicit in its horrifying imagery and distorted forms with combination of brutal realism and social criticism, coinciding with the rise of Nazism in Germany.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]