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OPS repts higher beef and pork ceilings due to give packers fair margins; choice beef cuts may drop; ceilings for live cattle utility grade raised; Wilson repr sees no aid to packers; repts other plant closings planned; Swift cuts operations 50% below '50 level; Meat Inst on packer losses
Met area rds and bridge and tunnel approaches jammed by Sunday drivers; some major jams noted
Mex City: Can-Can Cabaret; 14 dead, 90 hurt
Mrs Gross gets more threatening lrs
Dir Wilson repts 400% rise to $2.5 billion worth of mil items a mo
1951Russell Brown, Scottish politician[†]
Russell Leslie Brown is a Scottish Labour Party politician. He is a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire (1997–2005) and Dumfries and Galloway (2005–2015). He lost his seat at the 2015 general election to Richard Arkless of the Scottish National Party.
1951Cassandra Peterson, American actress, television host, and producer[†]
Cassandra Gay Peterson is an American actress best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Peterson gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV in her stage persona as Elvira, hosting Elvira's Movie Macabre, a weekly B movie presentation. A member of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings, Peterson based her Elvira persona in part on a "Valley girl"-type character she created while a member of the troupe.
1951Kermit Washington, American basketball player[†]
Kermit Alan Washington is an American former professional basketball player. Washington is best remembered for punching opposing player Rudy Tomjanovich during an on-court fight in 1977. Washington was not a highly coveted player coming out of high school. He averaged four points per game during his senior season at Coolidge Senior High School. He improved rapidly once at American University, and became one of only seven players in NCAA history to average 20 points and 20 rebounds throughout the course of his career.
1951Jimmy Yancey, American pianist and composer (born 1898)[†]
James Edward Yancey was an American boogie-woogie pianist, composer, and lyricist. One reviewer described him as "one of the pioneers of this raucous, rapid-fire, eight-to-the-bar piano style".
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]