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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Jan. 19 -- The late Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird, the world's most famous racing car, will return next month to Daytona Beach, where it traveled at 276.82 miles an hour seventeen years ago.
Retailers were warned last week that they soon will be faced with the issue of sales tax at the manufacturer or retailer level. In a special report issued last week by the American Retail Federation's headquarters in Washington, Rowland Jones Jr., president of the group, urged merchants and their organizations to unite in presenting a common stand on the question to Congress.
STOWE, Vt., Jan. 19 -- Doug Burden, 20-year-old Middlebury freshman, today hurtled down Mount Mansfield in record time to top a talented field of sixty in the down hill phase of the fifth annual Capt. Victor Constant Memorial Alpine ski competition. The 6-foot 3-inch speedster was at his best in negotiating the mile-and-three-quarter course, which drops 2,000 feet, in the remarkable time of 2:39.4.
6 killed, 61 hurt as disabled B-25 crash-lands atop guardhouse, Mather Base, Calif; 3 crewmen escape; victims believed prisoners
1952Nikos Sideris, Greek psychiatrist and poet[†]
Nikos Sideris, is a Greek psychiatrist, translator, poet and writer.
1952Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]
Paul Stanley is an American musician who was the co-founder, frontman, rhythm guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the hard rock band Kiss from the band's inception in 1973 to their retirement in 2023. He was the writer or co-writer of many of the band's most popular songs. Stanley established The Starchild character for his Kiss persona. Stanley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss.
1952John Witherow, South African-English journalist and author[†]
John Witherow is a former editor of British newspaper The Times. A former journalist with Reuters, he joined News International in 1980 and was appointed editor of The Sunday Times in 1994 and editor of The Times in 2013.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]