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Sen com backs Douglas; votes to kill Drucker and Harrington apptmts; Douglas gratified; courses open to Truman noted
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Amer Bar Assn adopts rept of comm on organized crime; approves some new Fed laws
Truman contrasts US liberties with USSR tyranny, s, Const Day
1951Ben Carson, American neurosurgeon, author, and politician[†]
Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as the 17th United States secretary of housing and urban development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he ran for president of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries. Carson is one of the most prominent black conservatives in the United States.
1951Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2002)[†]
Douglas Glenn Colvin, better known by his stage name Dee Dee Ramone, was an American musician. He was the bassist, occasional lead vocalist and a founding member of the punk rock band the Ramones. Throughout the band's existence, he was the most prolific lyricist and composer, writing many of their best-known songs, such as "53rd & 3rd", "Chinese Rock", "Commando", "Wart Hog", "Rockaway Beach", "Poison Heart" and "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg". The latter won the New York Music Award for best independent single of the year in 1986, while Animal Boy, which the song is from, won for best album.
1951Marc Surer, Swiss racing driver and sportscaster[†]
Marc Surer is a Swiss former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1979 to 1986.
1951Gelett Burgess, American author and poet (born 1866)[†]
Frank Gelett Burgess was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. He was an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, and association with The Crowd literary group. He is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." He was the illustrator of the Goops murals, in Coppa's restaurant, in the Montgomery Block and author of the popular Goops books. Burgess coined the term "blurb."
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]