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TOKYO, Monday, Dec.10--The United Nations delegates to the Korean armistice talks took a new step today to push negotiations for an exchange of war prisoners simultaneously with the deadlocked debate on true enforcement conditions.
city bus and taxi collide 1st Av and E 7th St, Manhattan; illus; 21 hurt; 2 other cars and store front damaged; traffic blocked; drivers held for culpable negligence
Dr J M Cruxent repts finding headwaters in Venezuelan jungles, message to Amer Geog Soc; expedition discussed; map
NY Times survey on orgn and problems impeding functions; chart; illus
McGrath meets Truman at airport on Pres sudden return from Key West vacation; Truman sets confs with McGrath and other Justice Dept officials; DeWind repts subcom probes H Nutt tax case; Schoeneman tells press of assn with Grunewald; Sen McClellan comments
1951Johnny Rodriguez, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)[†]
Juan Raoul Davis "Johnny" Rodriguez was an American country music singer from Texas. In the 1970s and 1980s, Rodriguez was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back To Hurting Me," "Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande", and "Foolin'." He recorded six No. 1 country hits in his career.
1951Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (born 1869)[†]
Algernon Henry Blackwood was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]