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UN ECOSOC rept urges full employment as policy aim
NY Times survey of '51 teaching conditions finds war mobilization cuts staffs and standards and forces demands for pay rises; regional summaries; figures
Juin urges US, GB and France set common strategy, SE Asia; holds long-range outlook for West poor; scores premature grant of freedom to SE Asian states
Clark withdraws at nominee; Truman will submit new nomination later; Clark says controversy forced withdrawal; controversy revd; Prot leaders protest any apptmt; Bishop Sherril gives Natl Council of Chs stand; others comment
Communists score voluntary repatriation as interference in NK internal affairs; hold plan calls for 'pol' elections; UN replies to charges that plan violates Geneva Conv
1952Sydney Biddle Barrows, American businesswoman and author[†]
Sydney Biddle Barrows is an American businesswoman and socialite who became known as an escort agency owner under the name Sheila Devin; she later became known as "The Mayflower Madam". She has since become a management consultant and writer.
1952Maureen Dowd, American journalist and author[†]
Maureen Brigid Dowd is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.
1952Konstantinos Iosifidis, Greek footballer and manager[†]
Konstantinos Iosifidis is a former Greek international footballer who played as a left back and spent his entire career from 1971 to 1985 at PAOK.
1952Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Romanian engineer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Romania[†]
Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu is a Romanian politician who served as prime minister of Romania from 2004 to 2008. He was also president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the vice-president of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), two positions he assumed in 2004.
1952Artur Kapp, Estonian composer and conductor (born 1878)[†]
Artur Kapp was an Estonian composer.
1952NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.[†]
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. It is one of NBCUniversal's two namesake flagship subsidiaries alongside Universal Studios. It is the first and oldest major broadcast network in the United States.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]