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September 20, 1951

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Headlines from September 20, 1951

POSTAL RATE RISE IS VOTED BY HOUSE; ADDS $126,000,000; Postcard Fee Made 2 Cents-- 30% Increase Over 3 Years Set on Second-Class Mail LETTERS STAY AT 3 CENTS Senate Measure More Severe --Higher Post Office Pay Is Slated for Consideration Second-Class Rate Raised POSTAL RATE RISE IS VOTED BY HOUSE Senate Bill's Provisions

By John D. Morris Special To the New York Times

House passes bill to raise postcards, 2d and 3d-class mail; bars 1st-class rise; exempts books from rises; other differences with Sen bill

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KOREA FOE OFFERS TO RENEW PARLEYS; ASKS QUICK ACTION; NOTE TO RIDGWAY Reds Want 1st Meeting to Set Up Machinery to Handle Incidents BID ON NEW SITE REJECTED Message Also Sees No Need to Discuss Conditions for Resumption of Talks Truce Resumption Asked No Long Delay Foreseen KOREA FOE OFFERS TO RENEW PARLEYS Clause Is Omitted

By Lindesay Parrott Special To the New York Times

Kim and Peng announce willingness to resume talks, reply to Ridgway; ask zone 'violations' be dealt with in responsible way; accept Joy apology for accidental strafing Sept 10; ask both sides set up machinery to deal with 'incidents'; ask meeting of liaison officers to set time for resuming talks; enemy seen ready to by-pass preliminary liaison meeting and subcom meetings in progress when talks were suspended; UN liaison team disclosed to have been summoned to Panmunjom so that enemy could turn over 4 SK med corpsmen who strayed into neutral zone; SKs had been held by enemy 20 hrs

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Notable Births

Guy Lafleur

1951Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2022)[†]

Guy Damien Lafleur, nicknamed "the Flower" and "Le DĂ©mon Blond", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was the first player in National Hockey League (NHL) history to score 50 goals in six consecutive seasons as well as 50 goals and 100 points in six consecutive seasons. Between 1971 and 1991, Lafleur played right wing for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Quebec Nordiques in an NHL career spanning 17 seasons, and five Stanley Cup championships in 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979. Lafleur was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988, named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history in 2017, and was named to the Order of Hockey in Canada in 2022.

Javier MarĂ­as

1951Javier Marías, Spanish journalist, author, and academic (died 2022)[†]

Javier MarĂ­as Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. MarĂ­as published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement. In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally. He received several awards for his work, such as the RĂłmulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).

Debbi Morgan

1951Debbi Morgan, American actress[†]

Deborah Ann "Debbi" Morgan is an American film and television actress. Morgan has appeared in a number of film and TV productions, and may be best known for the role of Angie Baxter–Hubbard on the ABC soap opera All My Children.

Greg Valentine

1951Greg Valentine, American wrestler[†]

Jonathan Anthony Wisniski is a retired American professional wrestler, better known as Greg "the Hammer" Valentine. He is the son of wrestler Johnny Valentine.

Historical Context for September 20, 1951

In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]