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Ex-Denver star E E Nemeth claims univ refuses him back pay for wk he was injured in '50, State Indus Comm case; univ denies he recd salary
US Army Sgt E F Gentry held, NYC, for marijuana sales, US; used position as war dead escort for operations; 7 held, Bronx, for narcotics sales
apptd NYS Athletic Comm boxing chmn
H E Lucking and E F Conti, veterans, charge Ruppell took bribes from them to get liquor store licenses; G L Gatz, SLA chief exec officer, linked to deals; other witnesses testify on payoffs to Ruppell and Asst Dist Atty Spinelli for pol favors
1951Tommy Taylor, English footballer and manager[†]
Thomas Frederick Taylor is an English football manager and former footballer. As a footballer, he played as a defender.
1951Stuart Tosh, Scottish singer-songwriter and drummer[†]
Stuart Mcbeath Tosh is a Scottish drummer, songwriter and vocalist. He recorded and toured with a succession of bands during the 1970s and 1980s, including Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, 10cc, Camel, and Roger Daltrey.
1951Hans Cloos, German geologist and academic (born 1885)[†]
Hans Cloos was a prominent German structural geologist.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]