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Mayor Impellitteri scores rise plea; says NYC will press ct case against rises granted in May '50; makes pub brief filed by Corp Counsel McGrath; holds NYC rates discriminatory
Molotov scores Yugoslavia and West, s, Warsaw
Pres Truman acclaims Sherman's service; other tributes
Free Eur Univ in Exile set up by Natl Com for Free Eur and Crusade for Freedom; gets provisional charter from NYS Regents Bd; open to emigres from 10 countries; Free Eur Coll set up near Strasbourg as study center; C D Jackson comments; D W C Poole is pres, Dr M Davis dean of univ; trustees listed
1951Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (born 1884)[â ]
Robert Joseph Flaherty, was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922). The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of narrative documentary with Moana (1926), set in the South Seas, and Man of Aran (1934), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands. Flaherty is considered the father of both the documentary and the ethnographic film.
1951Philippe PĂ©tain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (born 1856)[â ]
Henri Philippe BĂ©noni Omer Joseph PĂ©tain, better known as Marshal PĂ©tain, was a French military officer who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[â ]