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labor reptdly would like Pres Truman to intervene in quarrel with Wilson
ECA program and plans revd
CCNY stars E Roman, E Warner and A Roth held on bribery charges; admit being paid $1,500 each to 'throw Madison Sq Garden games; gambler S T Sollazzo, ex-LIU player E Gard, his alleged intermediary, NYU player H Schaff and gambler R Sabatini held; all bailed but Sollazzo; NYU player J Brasco refused to accept bribe; Hogan on Sollazzo-Gard roles; coll officials comment
Penna RR seeks return to private operation; charges unfair regulation and taxation caused bankruptcy; W S Franklin explains stand, lr to stockholders; Draper and co engineer on nationwide tour of other rys signal systems
Voice of Amer and State Dept Wireless Bulletin activities discussed; Dept repts sending harmless-looking pamphlets containing anti-USSR propaganda to USSR bloc
1951Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Pakistani scholar and politician, founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran[†]
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is a Pakistani–Canadian Islamic scholar and former politician who founded Minhaj-ul-Quran International and Pakistan Awami Tehreek.
1951André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)[†]
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French writer and author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. The author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]